{"id":"MGASA-2014-0253","summary":"Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability","details":"XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.22.7, due to usernames on\nSpecial:PasswordReset being parsed as wikitext. The username on\nSpecial:PasswordReset can be supplied by anyone and will be parsed\nwith wgRawHtml enabled. Since Special:PasswordReset is whitelisted\nby default on private wikis, this could potentially lead to an XSS\ncrossing a privilege boundary (CVE-2014-3966).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:22:53.399439400Z","published":"2014-06-06T06:08:57Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-3966"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0253.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13477"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65501"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-May/000151.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/04/15"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mediawiki","ecosystem":"Mageia:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/mediawiki?arch=source&distro=mageia-3"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.22.7-1.mga3"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0253.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mediawiki","ecosystem":"Mageia:4","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/mediawiki?arch=source&distro=mageia-4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.22.7-1.mga4"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0253.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}