CVE-2015-6729

Publication date 1 September 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in thumb.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rel404 parameter, which is not properly handled in an error page.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mediawiki	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

msalvatore

vulnerability introduced in 1.21

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
mediawiki	Upstream: https://phab.wmfusercontent.org/file/data/zm24swymokh5ac5bqsms/PHID-FILE-n2jrbxtlmei74wxmvbsa/T97391.patch