Security Advisory

CVE-2024-23179

6.1
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:GlobalBlock?uselang=x-xss URI, i18n-based XSS can occur via the parentheses message. This affects subtitle links in buildSubtitleLinks.
Published Date January 12, 2024
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory