An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-10-06T20:28:20

Updated: 2021-10-06T20:28:20

Reserved: 2021-10-06T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-42043

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-10-06T21:15:07.337

Modified: 2021-10-14T20:19:22.097


Link: CVE-2021-42043

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