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CVE-2015-6729

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in thumb.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rel404 parameter, which is not properly handled in an error page.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.23.9; 1.24.0, 1.24.1, 1.24.2, 1.25.0, 1.25.1

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76334
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76334
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

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