CVE-2012-2698
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 4.9%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDJun 29
1st PoCJun 17
exploitation probability
4.9%top 9% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the outputPage function in includes/SkinTemplate.php in MediaWiki before 1.17.5, 1.18.x before 1.18.4, and 1.19.x before 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the uselang parameter to index.php/Main_page.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/37404⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000116.htmlhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000117.htmlhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000118.htmlhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938http://secunia.com/advisories/49484http://securitytracker.com/id?1027179https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76311https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7979/1/includes/SkinTemplate.phphttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.17https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.18https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/14/2