CVE-2022-42985 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The ScratchLogin extension through 1.1 for MediaWiki does not escape verification failure messages, which allows users with administrator privileges to perform cross-site scripting (XSS).

Published: 2022-11-17

Score: 4.8 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:scratch-wiki:scratch_login:*:*:*:*:*: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-2022-46034	The ScratchLogin extension through 1.1 for MediaWiki does not escape verification failure messages, which allows users with administrator privileges to perform cross-site scripting (XSS).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

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 0.0042.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/InternationalScratchWiki/mediawiki-scratch-login/blob/4d2c1229b558b9cd685961274f20b621d114f4db/ScratchLogin.common.php#L104
https://github.com/InternationalScratchWiki/mediawiki-scratch-login/pull/22

History

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Scratch-wiki Scratch Login

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-11-17T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-25T20:42:03.569Z

Reserved: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42985

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:19:05.514Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-17T05:15:15.723

Modified: 2025-04-25T21:15:34.313

Link: CVE-2022-42985

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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