CVE-2021-42044

MediumCVSS 4.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Mentor dashboard in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-add-filter-total-edits-headline, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-add-filter-starred-headline, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-info-text, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-info-legend-headline, and growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-active-ago MediaWiki messages were not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 6, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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