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CVE-2025-24017 Detail

Description

YesWiki is a wiki system written in PHP. Versions up to and including 4.4.5 are vulnerable to any end-user crafting a DOM based XSS on all of YesWiki's pages which is triggered when a user clicks on a malicious link. The vulnerability makes use of the search by tag feature. When a tag doesn't exist, the tag is reflected on the page and isn't properly sanitized on the server side which allows a malicious user to generate a link that will trigger an XSS on the client's side when clicked. This vulnerability allows any user to generate a malicious link that will trigger an account takeover when clicked, therefore allowing a user to steal other accounts, modify pages, comments, permissions, extract user data (emails), thus impacting the integrity, availability and confidentiality of a YesWiki instance. Version 4.5.0 contains a patch for the issue.


Metrics

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
Base Score:  7.6 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/commit/c1e28b59394957902c31c850219e4504a20db98b
https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/security/advisories/GHSA-wphc-5f2j-jhvg

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-24017
NVD Published Date:
01/21/2025
NVD Last Modified:
01/21/2025
Source:
GitHub, Inc.