MEDIUM
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/actions/InfoAction.php in MediaWiki before 1.21.9 and 1.22.x before 1.22.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort key in an info action
Published Apr 29, 2014
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.40%
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/actions/InfoAction.php in MediaWiki before 1.21.9 and 1.22.x before 1.22.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort key in an info action.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- ≤ 1.21.8
- 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
- 1.17.4
- 1.18
- 1.18
- 1.18.0
- 1.18.0
- 1.18.1
- 1.18.2
- 1.18.3
- 1.19
- 1.19
- 1.19
- 1.19.0
- 1.19.1
- 1.19.2
- 1.19.3
- 1.19.4
- 1.19.5
- 1.19.6
- 1.19.7
- 1.19.8
- 1.19.9
- 1.19.10
- 1.19.11
- 1.19.12
- 1.19.13
- 1.19.14
- 1.20
- 1.20.1
- 1.20.2
- 1.20.3
- 1.20.4
- 1.20.5
- 1.20.6
- 1.20.7
- 1.20.8
- 1.21
- 1.21.1
- 1.21.2
- 1.21.3
- 1.21.4
- 1.21.5
- 1.21.6
- 1.21.7
- 1.22.0
- 1.22.1
- 1.22.2
- 1.22.3
- 1.22.4
- 1.22.5
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.
2.40% 0.02397
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.02397
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 (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.40% (0.02397) | 83.40th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.38% (0.02377) | 81.62th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.37% (0.00373) | 56.94th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.32% (0.00317) | 71.28th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.32% (0.00317) | 69.61th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 10, 2023 | 0.32% (0.00317) | 67.08th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.32% (0.00323) | 65.98th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.78% (0.01776) | 76.86th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | 1.78% (0.01776) | 76.81th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.78% (0.01776) | 74.78th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.78% (0.01776) | 53.99th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (11)
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-April/000149.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58262 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67068 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030161 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091967 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6h86-9r5g-f2h5 Advisory
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/commit/0b695ae09aada343ab59be4a3c9963995a1143b6 x_refsource_MISC
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2853
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21#Changes_since_1.21.8 x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22#Changes_since_1.22.5 x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-April/000149.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/58262 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67068 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030161 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091967 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6h86-9r5g-f2h5 | Advisory | |
| https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/commit/0b695ae09aada343ab59be4a3c9963995a1143b6 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2853 | ||
| https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21#Changes_since_1.21.8 | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22#Changes_since_1.22.5 | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 29, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Apr 14, 2014
Link CVE-2014-2853
CISA Vulnrichment
GHSA-6H86-9R5G-F2H5 Updated n/a