CVE-2012-2698

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the outputPage function in includes/SkinTemplate.php in MediaWiki before 1.17.5, 1.18.x before 1.18.4, and 1.19.x before 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the uselang parameter to index.php/Main_page.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.17.4; 1.18, 1.18-beta_1, 1.18.0, 1.18.0-rc1, 1.18.1, 1.18.2 (+148)

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000116.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000117.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000118.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49484
http://securitytracker.com/id?1027179
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/14/2
http://www.osvdb.org/82983
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76311
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7979/1/includes/SkinTemplate.php
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.17
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.18

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