MediaWiki Shortdescription
By the Year
In 2024 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in MediaWiki Shortdescription . Shortdescription did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2022 | 1 | 6.10 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0.00 |
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Recent MediaWiki Shortdescription Security Vulnerabilities
ShortDescription is a MediaWiki extension that provides local short description support
CVE-2022-21710
6.1 - Medium
- January 24, 2022
ShortDescription is a MediaWiki extension that provides local short description support. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in versions prior to 2.3.4. On a wiki that has the ShortDescription enabled, XSS can be triggered on any page or the page with the action=info parameter, which displays the shortdesc property. This is achieved using the wikitext `{{SHORTDESC:<img src=x onerror=alert()>}}`. This issue has a patch in version 2.3.4.
XSS
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