UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4378

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4378

    Published: 26 Oct 2017Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-4378

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.2, when unspecified JavaScript gadgets are used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the userlang parameter to w/index.php.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4378, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4378

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mediawiki

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki@1:1.19.14+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:1.19.14+dfsg-1

    Affected versions

    1:1.19.8+dfsg-1
    1:1.19.8+dfsg-2
    1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.1
    1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2
    1:1.19.9+dfsg-2
    1:1.19.10+dfsg-1
    1:1.19.11+dfsg-1

    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