Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in MediaWiki E-Widgets

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in MediaWiki E-Widgets

CVE-2023-22911 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. E-Widgets does widget replacement in HTML attributes, which can lead to XSS, because widget authors often do not expect that their widget is executed in an HTML attribute context.

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