CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-42042

4.8 MEDIUM Published 2021-10-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in SpecialEditGrowthConfig in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The growthexperiments-edit-config-error-invalid-title MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.

Affected configurations

• mediawiki mediawiki (<= 1.36.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References