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CVE-2014-9480

• 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 Hovercards extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to text extracts.

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/T69180
• 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/T69180

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