CVE-2013-2031

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MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,

MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a CDATA section containing valid UTF-7 encoded sequences in a SVG file, which is then incorrectly interpreted as UTF-8 by Chrome and Firefox.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.01605

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No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence

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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Affected Products & Versions

gentoo linuxall versions
mediawiki<= 1.19.5
mediawikiall versions

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Scoring & Timeline

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published to NVD18 Nov 2013 · 02:55 AM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105784.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105825.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106293.html

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-April/000129.htmlPatch

http://secunia.com/advisories/55433Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/57472

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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/01/2

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59594

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47304

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