CVE-2012-2698
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 4.9%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the outputPage function in includes/SkinTemplate.php in MediaWiki before 1.17.5, 1.18.x before 1.18.4, and 1.19.x before 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the uselang parameter to index.php/Main_page.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 4.9% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2678)
- Published
- June 29, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2678 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
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References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000116.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000117.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-June/000118.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49484(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1027179
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/14/2
- http://www.osvdb.org/82983
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76311
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7979/1/includes/SkinTemplate.php(Exploit, Patch)
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.17
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.18
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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