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CVE-2024-25109: Cross-Site Scripting in the extensions, settings, permissions and namespaces subpages of ManageWiki

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

ManageWiki is a MediaWiki extension allowing users to manage wikis. Special:ManageWiki does not escape escape interface messages on the `columns` and `help` keys on the form descriptor. An attacker may exploit this and would have a cross site scripting attack vector. Exploiting this on-wiki requires the `(editinterface)` right. Users should apply the code changes in commits `886cc6b94`, `2ef0f50880`, and `6942e8b2c` to resolve this vulnerability. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

• miraheze ManageWiki: before 2024-02-09 — fixed in 2024-02-09

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: miraheze ManageWiki 2024-02-09. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/miraheze/ManageWiki/commit/2ef0f50880d7695ca2874dc8dd515b2b9bbb02e5
• https://github.com/miraheze/ManageWiki/commit/6942e8b2c01dc33c2c41a471f91ef3f6ca726073
• https://github.com/miraheze/ManageWiki/commit/886cc6b94587f1c7387caa26ca9fe612e01836a0
• https://github.com/miraheze/ManageWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4jr2-jhfm-2r84
• https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T11812
• https://github.com/miraheze/ManageWiki/commit/2ef0f50880d7695ca2874dc8dd515b2b9bbb02e5
• https://github.com/miraheze/ManageWiki/commit/6942e8b2c01dc33c2c41a471f91ef3f6ca726073
• https://github.com/miraheze/ManageWiki/commit/886cc6b94587f1c7387caa26ca9fe612e01836a0
• https://github.com/miraheze/ManageWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4jr2-jhfm-2r84
• https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T11812

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