CVE-2013-4305 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4305?

CVE-2013-4305 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki, published on 11 Oct 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in contrib/example.php in the SyntaxHighlight GeSHi extension for MediaWiki, possibly as downloaded before September 2013, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4305?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mediawiki Mediawiki.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4305?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4305 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2013-4305 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4305 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3367-vgjc-9cv9.