CVE-2016-6334

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Parser::replaceInternalLinks2 method in MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving replacement of percent encoding in unclosed internal links.

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.securityfocus.com/bid/98057
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613Issue Tracking
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137264Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98057
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613Issue Tracking
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137264Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 20, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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