CVE-2018-25065
Published: 05 January 2023
Summary
CVE-2018-25065 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wikimedia Mediawiki-Extensions-I18Ntags. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).
Operationally, ranked at the 48.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2018-13827
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in Wikimedia mediawiki-extensions-I18nTags and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file I18nTags_body.php of the component Unlike Parser. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated remotely. The…
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identifier of the patch is b4bc3cbbb099eab50cf2b544cf577116f1867b94. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-217445 was assigned to this vulnerability.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.