CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8808
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 has XSS when the $wgShowExceptionDetails setting is false and the browser sends non-standard URL escaping.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki (<= 1.27.3)
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.28.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.28.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.28.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.29.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.29.1
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039812 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4036 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039812 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4036 Third Party Advisory