{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2244","details":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the formatHTML function in includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string located after http:// in the text parameter to api.php.","modified":"2025-07-16T08:10:59.528947Z","published":"2014-03-02T04:57:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:43:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-2244"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2244"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/Idf985e4e69c2f11778a8a90503914678441cb3fb,n,z"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61362"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071139"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2244"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mediawiki","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki@1:1.19.14+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.19.14+dfsg-1"}]}],"versions":["1:1.19.8+dfsg-1","1:1.19.8+dfsg-2","1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.1","1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2","1:1.19.9+dfsg-2","1:1.19.10+dfsg-1","1:1.19.11+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"mediawiki","binary_version":"1:1.19.14+dfsg-1"},{"binary_name":"mediawiki-classes","binary_version":"1:1.19.14+dfsg-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2244.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}