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CVE-2015-2941

• 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: 2015-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to api.php, which is not properly handled in an error message, related to unsafe calls to wddx_serialize_value.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.19.23; 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5 (+42)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85851
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85851
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

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