CVE-2015-2941

NameCVE-2015-2941
DescriptionCross-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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
mediawiki (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)1:1.39.7-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1:1.39.8-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
mediawikisource(unstable)1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3unimportant

Notes

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

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