CVE-2014-7295

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The (1) Special:Preferences and (2) Special:UserLogin pages in MediaWiki before 1.19.20, 1.22.x before 1.22.12 and 1.23.x before 1.23.5 allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or have unspecified other impact via crafted CSS, as demonstrated by modifying MediaWiki:Common.css.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.19.19; 1.19, 1.19-beta_1, 1.19-beta_2, 1.19.0, 1.19.1, 1.19.2 (+33)

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/67
http://secunia.com/advisories/61752
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3046
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70238
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70672
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-October/000163.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/67
http://secunia.com/advisories/61752
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3046
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70238
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70672
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-October/000163.html

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