CVE-2017-8814

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8814
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8814.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8814
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-11-15T08:29:00.780Z
Modified
2025-11-14T05:17:03.703892Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The language converter in MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 allows attackers to replace text inside tags via a rule definition followed by "a lot of junk."

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
34bc8899bf68e011fde9113c6857853cf91df0b8
Last affected
438c3d6c41799cb2da58946a6d743d36c6ac3e33
Last affected
798ceea8b6c75d241f8469873ea900787383c7b4
Last affected
819c0d21addeed5336244cb9b776fe83a7b2279e
Last affected
a112e4fa487183da2d03166988e2dd1ec23f2bfe
Last affected
a69ecd8e05a4d09fd50493102dd6d575b3f70cf3

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.0
1.27.0
1.27.0-rc.0
1.27.0-rc.1
1.27.1
1.27.2
1.27.3
1.28.0
1.28.0-rc.0
1.28.0-rc.1
1.29.0
1.29.0-rc.0
1.29.0-rc.1
1.3.0beta1
1.5.0alpha1
1.5.0alpha2
1.5.0beta1
1.5.0beta2
1.5.0beta3
1.5.0beta4
1.6.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8814.json"