CVE-2013-6453

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

MediaWiki before 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1 does not properly sanitize SVG files, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via invalid XML.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.19.9; 1.22.0, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.19 (+11)

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000138.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000138.html

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