CVE-2021-42042

Medium

Description

An issue was discovered in SpecialEditGrowthConfig in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The growthexperiments-edit-config-error-invalid-title MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.8
Exploit probability—
ProductMediawiki
PublishedOct 6, 2021
First seenOct 6, 2021

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mediawiki mediawikiv ≤ 1.36.2—

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