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CVE-2021-42043
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-10-06T21:15:07.337 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:09:12.663

Summary

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.

Affected products

mediawiki — mediawiki

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References

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