CVE-2014-2244

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the formatHTML function in includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string located after http:// in the text parameter to api.php.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.19.11; 1.1.0, 1.10.0, 1.10.0-rc1, 1.10.0-rc2, 1.10.1, 1.10.2 (+83)

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65906
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071139
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61362
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/Idf985e4e69c2f11778a8a90503914678441cb3fb%2Cn%2Cz
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65906
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071139

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