Vulnerability · Published Oct 5, 2024 · Assigned by wikimedia-foundation

CVE-2024-47840Stored XSS through sidebar in Apex skin

Medium 6.9

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Mediawiki - Apex skin from The Wikimedia Foundation. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 26% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)6.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 73.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Apex skin allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Mediawiki - Apex skin: from 1.39.X before 1.39.9, from 1.41.X before 1.41.3, from 1.42.X before 1.42.2.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Apex skin 1.39.x – before 1.39.91.41.x – before 1.41.31.42.x – before 1.42.2

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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