CVE-2014-2242
Publication date 2 March 2014
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
includes/upload/UploadBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 does not prevent use of invalid namespaces in SVG files, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an SVG upload, as demonstrated by use of a W3C XHTML namespace in conjunction with an IFRAME element.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
---|---|---|
mediawiki | ||
16.04 LTS xenial | Not in release | |
14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release | |
References
Other references
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb,n,z
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2242