CVE-2014-9276 Cross-site request forgery in n/a
Attackers can hijack sessions of users with edit permissions to inject XSS via CSRF in MediaWiki when raw HTML is enabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-9276?
CVE-2014-9276 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki, published on 4 Jan 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Special:ExpandedTemplates page in MediaWiki before 1.19.22, 1.20.x through 1.22.x before 1.22.14, and 1.23.x before 1.23.7, when $wgRawHTML is set to true, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with edit permissions for requests that cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the wpInput parameter, which is not properly handled in the preview.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9276?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mediawiki Mediawiki.
How do I fix CVE-2014-9276?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2014-9276 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9276 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mediawiki Mediawiki
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4rrq-7p7h-pfq3.