CVE-2014-2242

Impact

includes/upload/UploadBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 does not prevent use of invalid namespaces in SVG files, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an SVG upload, as demonstrated by use of a W3C XHTML namespace in conjunction with an IFRAME element.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65910
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb%2Cn%2Cz
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65910
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb%2Cn%2Cz