Description

An issue was discovered in the Mentor dashboard in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-add-filter-total-edits-headline, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-add-filter-starred-headline, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-info-text, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-info-legend-headline, and growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-active-ago MediaWiki messages were not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.

Remediation

References

CVE-2021-42044

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2021-42044 CWE-707 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities