CVE-2014-9276

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Special:ExpandedTemplates page in MediaWiki before 1.19.22, 1.20.x through 1.22.x before 1.22.14, and 1.23.x before 1.23.7, when $wgRawHTML is set to true, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with edit permissions for requests that cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the wpInput parameter, which is not properly handled in the preview.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.19.21; 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5 (+35)

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1031301
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/03/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/04/16
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-November/000170.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73111
http://securitytracker.com/id?1031301
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/03/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/04/16
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-November/000170.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73111

Get alerted when CVE-2014-9276 or the next vulnerability affects your stack