CVE-2021-46150
Published: 10 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-46150 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 39.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-32850
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. Special:CheckUserLog allows CheckUser XSS because of date mishandling, as demonstrated by an XSS payload in MediaWiki:October.
- 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.