CVE-2017-20175

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-20175
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-05 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:43:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in DaSchTour matomo-mediawiki-extension up to 2.4.2 on MediaWiki. This affects an unknown part of the file Piwik.hooks.php of the component Username Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.4.3 is able to address this issue. The patch is named 681324e4f518a8af4bd1f93867074c728eb9923d. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-220203.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mediawiki Matomo All All All All

References

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SECURITY: XSS when $wgPiwikTrackUsernames is true · DaSchTour/matomo-mediawiki-extension@681324e · GitHub MISC github.com
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SECURITY: XSS when $wgPiwikTrackUsernames is true by Seb35 · Pull Request #17 · DaSchTour/matomo-mediawiki-extension · GitHub MISC github.com
Release v2.4.3 · DaSchTour/matomo-mediawiki-extension · GitHub MISC github.com
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