CVE-2021-42046

Summary

CVECVE-2021-42046
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-29 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-30 16:50:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the GlobalWatchlist extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rev-deleted-user and ntimes messages were not properly escaped and allowed for users to inject HTML and JavaScript.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mediawiki Mediawiki All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
⚓ T286385 XSS in GlobalWatchlist (CVE-2021-42046) MISC phabricator.wikimedia.org
gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id2204fb5afe591d63764466de35ac0aaa5999983 MISC gerrit.wikimedia.org
cve-website MISC www.cve.org
gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ib7f9b009730fe0df283cec1169f84c7a83a58b1d MISC gerrit.wikimedia.org
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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