CVE-2021-42043 | BDVDB-2026-162144 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291600
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/If64eb5842237c92290d07ebc3fe14710d9de3fc2

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12021-10-06Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-04Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.