CVE-2021-42042
4.8 MEDIUMAn issue was discovered in SpecialEditGrowthConfig in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2
Published: 2021-10-06 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 4.8 MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CWE
- CWE-79
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| mediawiki | mediawiki |
Description
An issue was discovered in SpecialEditGrowthConfig in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The growthexperiments-edit-config-error-invalid-title MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42042
- [Patch]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ibeb13d032ca044af53f6b2334e27b6b97b6f4e9f
- [Patch]https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290692
- [Patch]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ibeb13d032ca044af53f6b2334e27b6b97b6f4e9f
- [Patch]https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290692
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