VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9507

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Published 2015-01-04 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.6

Description

MediaWiki 1.21.x, 1.22.x before 1.22.14, and 1.23.x before 1.23.7, when $wgContentHandlerUseDB is enabled, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by setting the content model for a revision to JS.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.19.21"}
mediawikimediawiki1.20
mediawikimediawiki1.20.1
mediawikimediawiki1.20.2
mediawikimediawiki1.20.3
mediawikimediawiki1.20.4
mediawikimediawiki1.20.5
mediawikimediawiki1.20.6
mediawikimediawiki1.20.7
mediawikimediawiki1.20.8
mediawikimediawiki1.21
mediawikimediawiki1.21.1
mediawikimediawiki1.21.2
mediawikimediawiki1.21.3
mediawikimediawiki1.21.4
mediawikimediawiki1.21.5
mediawikimediawiki1.21.6
mediawikimediawiki1.21.7
mediawikimediawiki1.21.8
mediawikimediawiki1.21.9
mediawikimediawiki1.21.10
mediawikimediawiki1.21.11
mediawikimediawiki1.22.0
mediawikimediawiki1.22.1
mediawikimediawiki1.22.2
mediawikimediawiki1.22.3
mediawikimediawiki1.22.4
mediawikimediawiki1.22.5
mediawikimediawiki1.22.6
mediawikimediawiki1.22.7
mediawikimediawiki1.22.8
mediawikimediawiki1.22.10
mediawikimediawiki1.22.11
mediawikimediawiki1.22.12
mediawikimediawiki1.22.13
mediawikimediawiki1.23.0
mediawikimediawiki1.23.1
mediawikimediawiki1.23.2
mediawikimediawiki1.23.3
mediawikimediawiki1.23.4
mediawikimediawiki1.23.5
mediawikimediawiki1.23.6

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.