CVE-2012-4377

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a File: link to a nonexistent image.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853409Issue Tracking, Patch
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41700Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853409Issue Tracking, Patch
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41700Mailing List, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 26, 2017
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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