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  • Keyword (text search): cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:shortdescription:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*
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Vuln ID Summary CVSS Severity
CVE-2022-21710

ShortDescription is a MediaWiki extension that provides local short description support. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in versions prior to 2.3.4. On a wiki that has the ShortDescription enabled, XSS can be triggered on any page or the page with the action=info parameter, which displays the shortdesc property. This is achieved using the wikitext `{{SHORTDESC:<img src=x onerror=alert()>}}`. This issue has a patch in version 2.3.4.

Published: January 24, 2022; 3:15:08 PM -0500 		V4.0:(not available)
 V3.1: 6.1 MEDIUM
V2.0: 4.3 MEDIUM