CVE-2012-6453

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RSS Reader extension before 0.2.6 for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted feed.

Affected products

mediawiki Rssreader: through 0.2.5; 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4

References

http://bugs.debian.org/696179
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader#0.2.6
http://bugs.debian.org/696179
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader#0.2.6

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