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CVE-2021-42043

6.1 MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2

Published: 2021-10-06 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS
6.1 MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
CWE-79

Affected products

VendorProduct
mediawikimediawiki

Description

An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.

Source: NVD

References

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