UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2941

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2941

    Published: 13 Apr 2015Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-2941

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2941, https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2941

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mediawiki

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki@1:1.27.4-3?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:1.27.4-3

    Affected versions

    1:1.27.3-1
    1:1.27.4-1
    1:1.27.4-2

    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
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