CVE-2014-3966
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Special:PasswordReset in MediaWiki before 1.19.16, 1.21.x before 1.21.10, and 1.22.x before 1.22.7, when wgRawHtml is enabled, allows remote attackers to
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Special:PasswordReset in MediaWiki before 1.19.16, 1.21.x before 1.21.10, and 1.22.x before 1.22.7, when wgRawHtml is enabled, allows remote attackers to
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.09% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-06-06 14:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 10:57Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-06-04
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1a4c4b70c06397050f08adcf44fd4693f318e8e215334a5c351c83a136f3b548
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com58896http://secunia.com/advisories/58896
- www.securitytracker.com1030364http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030364
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20140604 Re: CVE request: mediawiki invalid usernames on Special:PasswordReset were parsed as wikitexthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/04/15
- bugzilla.wikimedia.orghttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65501
- lists.wikimedia.org[MediaWiki-announce] 20140529 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.16, 1.21.10 and 1.22.7http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-May/000151.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-2957http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2957
- www.securityfocus.com67787http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67787
- secunia.com58834http://secunia.com/advisories/58834
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.19.16+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.19.16+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.19.16+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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