CVE-2015-6730 (GCVE-0-2015-6730)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-01 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:29
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in thumb.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the f parameter, which is not properly handled in an error page, related to "ForeignAPI images."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-a… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76334 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2015-08-10 00:00
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