| Name | CVE-2015-2941 |
| Description | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to api.php, which is not properly handled in an error message, related to unsafe calls to wddx_serialize_value. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| mediawiki (PTS) | buster | 1:1.31.16-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:1.31.16-1+deb10u7 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1:1.35.13-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1:1.39.5-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 1:1.39.7-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.39.7-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mediawiki | source | (unstable) | 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 | unimportant |
HHVM not packaged in Debian
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1