MEDIUM
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
Published Jun 29, 2012
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 4.95%
Description
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
No data.
Configuration 1
Configuration 2
OR
- ≤ 1.17.4
- 1.1.0
- 1.2.0
- 1.2.1
- 1.2.2
- 1.2.3
- 1.2.4
- 1.2.5
- 1.2.6
- 1.3
- 1.3.0
- 1.3.1
- 1.3.2
- 1.3.3
- 1.3.4
- 1.3.5
- 1.3.6
- 1.3.7
- 1.3.8
- 1.3.9
- 1.3.10
- 1.3.11
- 1.3.12
- 1.3.13
- 1.3.14
- 1.3.15
- 1.4
- 1.4
- 1.4
- 1.4
- 1.4
- 1.4
- 1.4.0
- 1.4.1
- 1.4.2
- 1.4.3
- 1.4.4
- 1.4.5
- 1.4.6
- 1.4.7
- 1.4.8
- 1.4.9
- 1.4.10
- 1.4.11
- 1.4.12
- 1.4.13
- 1.4.14
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5.0
- 1.5.1
- 1.5.2
- 1.5.3
- 1.5.4
- 1.5.5
- 1.5.6
- 1.5.7
- 1.5.8
- 1.6.0
- 1.6.1
- 1.6.2
- 1.6.3
- 1.6.4
- 1.6.5
- 1.6.6
- 1.6.7
- 1.6.8
- 1.6.9
- 1.6.10
- 1.6.11
- 1.6.12
- 1.7.0
- 1.7.1
- 1.7.2
- 1.7.3
- 1.8.0
- 1.8.1
- 1.8.2
- 1.8.3
- 1.8.4
- 1.8.5
- 1.9.0
- 1.9.0
- 1.9.1
- 1.9.2
- 1.9.3
- 1.9.4
- 1.9.5
- 1.9.6
- 1.10.0
- 1.10.0
- 1.10.0
- 1.10.1
- 1.10.2
- 1.10.3
- 1.10.4
- 1.11
- 1.11.0
- 1.11.0
- 1.11.1
- 1.11.2
- 1.12.0
- 1.12.0
- 1.12.1
- 1.12.2
- 1.12.3
- 1.12.4
- 1.13.0
- 1.13.0
- 1.13.0
- 1.13.1
- 1.13.2
- 1.13.3
- 1.13.4
- 1.14.0
- 1.14.0
- 1.14.1
- 1.15.0
- 1.15.0
- 1.15.1
- 1.15.2
- 1.15.3
- 1.15.4
- 1.15.5
- 1.16.0
- 1.16.0
- 1.16.0
- 1.16.0
- 1.16.1
- 1.16.2
- 1.17
- 1.17
- 1.17.0
- 1.17.0
- 1.17.1
- 1.17.2
- 1.17.3
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
4.3 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
4.95% 0.04945
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.04945
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 4.95% (0.04945) | 91.89th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 4.95% (0.04945) | 91.01th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Feb 28, 2026 | 14.45% (0.14453) | 94.29th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jul 30, 2025 | 20.11% (0.20110) | 95.25th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 18.88% (0.18881) | 94.82th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.98% (0.01985) | 89.28th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 25, 2024 | 1.98% (0.01985) | 88.77th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 24, 2023 | 1.80% (0.01799) | 86.51th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 2.23% (0.02229) | 87.74th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 5.65% (0.05649) | 90.28th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 13, 2022 | 5.65% (0.05649) | 89.83th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Jun 12, 2022 | 5.03% (0.05029) | 88.66th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 4.35% (0.04353) | 86.43th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 4.35% (0.04353) | 70.18th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (13)
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000116.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000117.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000118.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49484 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1027179 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/14/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.osvdb.org/82983 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76311 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7979/1/includes/SkinTemplate.php x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.17 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.18 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Jun 29, 2012
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved May 14, 2012
Link CVE-2012-2698
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a