MediaWiki Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2024-23179 - Vulnerability Database

MediaWiki Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2024-23179

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Reference: CVE-2024-23179
Title: MediaWiki Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability
Overview:

An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:GlobalBlockuselangx-xss URI i18n-based XSS can occur via the parentheses message. This affects subtitle links in buildSubtitleLinks.