CVE-2021-42047 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An 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.

Published: 2021-10-06

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-29035	An 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00213.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/720088
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289063

History

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Subscriptions

Mediawiki Mediawiki

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-10-06T20:48:01.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:22:25.844Z

Reserved: 2021-10-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-42047

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-29T03:15:14.657

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:27:08.137

Link: CVE-2021-42047

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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