CVE-2014-2242 — Vulnetix

CVE-2014-2242 REJECTED

includes/upload/UploadBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 does not prevent use of invalid namespaces in SVG files, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an SVG upload, as demonstrated by use of a W3C XHTML namespace in conjunction with an IFRAME element.

EPSS 0.50% · 66.3th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.50%

66.3th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	mediawiki	1:1.19.8+dfsg-1, 1:1.19.8+dfsg-2, 1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.1

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

Mar 2, 2014 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
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May 25, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2242 third-party-advisory
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html third-party-advisory
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb,n,z third-party-advisory
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771 third-party-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135 third-party-advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2 third-party-advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2242 third-party-advisory

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