CVE-2014-5242

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: yes
Published: 2014-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in mediawiki.page.image.pagination.js in MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.9 and 1.23.x before 1.23.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving the multipageimagenavbox class in conjunction with an action=raw value.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.22.0, 1.22.1, 1.22.2, 1.22.3, 1.22.4, 1.22.5 (+5)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0309.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/14/5
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:153
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69135
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66608
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-July/000157.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0309.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/14/5
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:153
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69135
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66608
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-July/000157.html

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