Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2021-42047 (CCN-211008)

Assigned:2021-09-09
Published:2021-09-09
Updated:2022-09-30
Summary:An issue was discovered in the Growth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. On any Wiki with the Mentor Dashboard feature enabled, users can login with a mentor account and trigger an XSS payload (such as alert) via Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-no-js-fallback.
CVSS v3 Severity:5.4 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
4.7 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:Scope (S): Changed
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availibility (A): None
5.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
4.8 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Changed
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availibility (A): None
CVSS v2 Severity:5.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availibility (A): None
Vulnerability Type:CWE-79
Vulnerability Consequences:Cross-Site Scripting
References:Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2021-42047

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
mediawiki-cve202142047-xss(211008)

Source: CCN
Type: Wikimedia Web page
Fix XSS vulnerabilities in mentor dashboard

Source: MISC
Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/720088

Source: MISC
Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289063

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version <= 1.36.2)

    • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    BACK
    mediawiki mediawiki *