An issue was discovered in the Mentor dashboard in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-add-filter-total-edits-headline, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-add-filter-starred-headline, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-info-text, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-info-legend-headline, and growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-active-ago MediaWiki messages were not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.
References
Link Resource
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I858d55fb2eca9b50ac6ef5a6f2a7b2784f0fa0d6 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289408 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-10-06T20:28:07

Updated: 2021-10-06T20:28:07

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


Link: CVE-2021-42044

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-10-06T21:15:07.373

Modified: 2021-10-14T20:09:26.387


Link: CVE-2021-42044

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CWE