CVE-2023-22911 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. E-Widgets does widget replacement in HTML attributes, which can lead to XSS, because widget authors often do not expect that their widget is executed in an HTML attribute context.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Mediawiki	Mediawiki

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Configuration 2 [-]

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No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AP65YEN762IBNQPOYGUVLTQIDLM5XD2A/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22911
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149488
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22911

History

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-07T18:36:08.229Z

Reserved: 2023-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-22911

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:20:31.462Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-10T08:15:10.433

Modified: 2025-04-07T19:15:51.443

Link: CVE-2023-22911

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-22911 - Bugzilla

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