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CVE-2015-2938

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1...

4.3 MediumFix available

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file, which is not properly handled when previewing the file.

Exploit likelihood

2.06%Up 0.7 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.3

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file, which is not properly handled when previewing the file.

Record
CVE-2015-2938
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness
CWE-79
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file, which is not properly handled when previewing the file.

Record
CVE-2015-2938
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-3023 No score

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file, which is not properly handled when previewing the file.

Record
EUVD-2015-3023
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-4f2v-323v-wg9q No score

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1...

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file, which is not properly handled when previewing the file.

Record
GHSA-4f2v-323v-wg9q
Weakness
CWE-79
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file, which is not properly handled when previewing the file.

Record
CVE-2015-2938
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2015-2938 No score

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file, which is not properly handled when previewing the file.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2938
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2015-0142 No score

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities:

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, one could circumvent the SVG MIME blacklist for embedded resources. This allowed an attacker to embed JavaScript in the SVG (CVE-2015-2931).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, the SVG filter to prevent injecting JavaScript using animate elements was incorrect (CVE-2015-2932).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, a stored XSS vulnerability exists due to the way attributes were expanded in MediaWiki's Html class, in combination with LanguageConverter substitutions (CVE-2015-2933).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, MediaWiki's SVG filtering could be bypassed with entity encoding under the Zend interpreter. This could be used to inject JavaScript (CVE-2015-2934).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, one could bypass the style filtering for SVG files to load external resources. This could violate the anonymity of users viewing the SVG (CVE-2015-2935).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, MediaWiki versions using PBKDF2 for password hashing (not the default for 1.23) are vulnerable to DoS attacks using extremely long passwords (CVE-2015-2936).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, MediaWiki is vulnerable to "Quadratic Blowup" DoS attacks, under both HHVM and Zend PHP (CVE-2015-2937).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, the MediaWiki feature allowing a user to preview another user's custom JavaScript could be abused for privilege escalation (CVE-2015-2938).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, function names were not sanitized in Lua error backtraces, which could lead to XSS (CVE-2015-2939).

In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, the CheckUser extension did not prevent CSRF attacks on the form allowing checkusers to look up sensitive information about other users. Since the use of CheckUser is logged, the CSRF could be abused to defame a trusted user or flood the logs with noise (CVE-2015-2940).

The mediawiki package has been updated to version 1.23.9, fixing these issues and other bugs.

Record
MGASA-2015-0142
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2015-2938 No score

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file, which is not properly handled when previewing the file.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2938
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
mediawiki
Debian:12
before 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
mediawiki
Debian:13
before 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
mediawiki
Debian:14
before 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
mediawiki
Mageia:4
From an advisory covering 10 CVEs
before 1.23.9-1.mga4
1.23.9-1.mga4

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
affected
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2015-2938 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Mediawiki, published April 9, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.06%, the 81st percentile. Fixed in mediawiki 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3.

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