CVE-2024-23174 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2024-23174?

CVE-2024-23174 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki, published on 12 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An issue was discovered in the PageTriage extension in MediaWiki before 1.35.14, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.6, and 1.40.x before 1.40.2. XSS can occur via the rev-deleted-user, pagetriage-tags-quickfilter-label, pagetriage-triage, pagetriage-filter-date-range-format-placeholder, pagetriage-filter-date-range-to, pagetriage-filter-date-range-from, pagetriage-filter-date-range-heading, pagetriage-filter-set-button, or pagetriage-filter-reset-button message.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-23174?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including mediawiki. It affects 1 product.

Products include Mediawiki Mediawiki.

How do I fix CVE-2024-23174?

Upgrade mediawiki to 1.41.1 or later.

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-2024-23174 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-23174 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-29904 SQL injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-29906 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-28205 Business logic in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-28206 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.8

All Mediawiki Mediawiki vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as BIT-mediawiki-2024-23174, GHSA-2vwj-p4xr-gwcv.