CVE-2021-42047

Summary

CVECVE-2021-42047
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-29 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-30 16:37:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Growth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. On any Wiki with the Mentor Dashboard feature enabled, users can login with a mentor account and trigger an XSS payload (such as alert) via Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-no-js-fallback.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mediawiki Mediawiki All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
⚓ T289063 Mentor dashboard: Permanent XSS exploitable by wiki admins (server-side part) (CVE-2021-42047) MISC phabricator.wikimedia.org
gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/720088 MISC gerrit.wikimedia.org
cve-website MISC www.cve.org
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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