CVE-2015-8622

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    CVE-2015-8622

    Published: 23 Mar 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."

    References: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7, https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7, https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High