CVE-2015-8622

Publication date 23 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mediawiki 19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
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

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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