Vulnerability · Published Oct 6, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-42046
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 41.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in the GlobalWatchlist extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rev-deleted-user and ntimes messages were not properly escaped and allowed for users to inject HTML and JavaScript.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286385 x_refsource_MISC
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ib7f9b009730fe0df283cec1169f84c7a83a58b1d x_refsource_MISC
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id2204fb5afe591d63764466de35ac0aaa5999983 x_refsource_MISC