CVE-2017-8814

The language converter in MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 allows attackers to replace text inside tags via a rule definition followed by "a lot of junk."

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - security@debian.org

Published

2017-11-15

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Mediawiki (Mediawiki)

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039812
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4036