CVE-2017-0368
Make rawHTML mode not apply to system messages
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.
- Record
CVE-2017-0368- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Make rawHTML mode not apply to system messages
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.
- Record
CVE-2017-0368- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-0722 No score
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.
- Record
EUVD-2017-0722- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-rgj4-22m7-2r9j
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system...
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.
- Record
GHSA-rgj4-22m7-2r9j- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.
- Record
CVE-2017-0368- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-0368
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-0368- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-0368
Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0368- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0110 No score
Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability
API parameters may now be marked as "sensitive" to keep their values out of the logs (CVE-2017-0361).
"Mark all pages visited" on the watchlist now requires a CSRF token (CVE-2017-0362).
Special:UserLogin and Special:Search allow redirect to interwiki links (CVE-2017-0363, CVE-2017-0364).
XSS in SearchHighlighter::highlightText() when $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting is true (CVE-2017-0365).
SVG filter evasion using default attribute values in DTD declaration (CVE-2017-0366).
Escape content model/format url parameter in message (CVE-2017-0368).
Sysops can undelete pages, although the page is protected against it (CVE-2017-0369).
Spam blacklist ineffective on encoded URLs inside file inclusion syntax's link parameter (CVE-2017-0370).
- Record
MGASA-2017-0110- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| affected, facts | ||
| affected | ||
| aliases, products | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2017-0368 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) in Mediawiki, published April 16, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.47%, the 73rd percentile. Fixed in mediawiki 1:1.27.2-1.
References
lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-April/000207.html
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156184
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0368
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0368
github.com/advisories/GHSA-rgj4-22m7-2r9j
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0110.html
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20654
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-0368
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-0368