CVE-2014-9479

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the preview in the TemplateSandbox extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the text parameter to Special:TemplateSandbox.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.19.22; 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5 (+39)

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/21/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/13
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76195
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/21/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/13
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76195

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