CVE-2024-34500 (GCVE-0-2024-34500)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-05 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 17:20
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in the UnlinkedWikibase extension in MediaWiki before 1.39.6, 1.40.x before 1.40.2, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. XSS can occur through an interface message. Error messages (in the $err var) are not escaped before being passed to Html::rawElement() in the getError() function in the Hooks class.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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Nomenclature
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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