CVE-2015-6731 (GCVE-0-2015-6731)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-01 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:29
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Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the SemanticForms extension for MediaWiki allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) section_*, (2) template_*, (3) label_*, or (4) new_template parameter to Special:CreateForm or (5) target or (6) alt_form parameter to Special:FormEdit.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-08-10 00:00
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