Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to api.php, which is not properly handled in an error message, related to unsafe calls to wddx_serialize_value.

Remediation

References

CVE-2015-2941

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2015-2941 CWE-707

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities