{"id":"BIT-mediawiki-2024-23179","details":"An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:GlobalBlock?uselang=x-xss URI, i18n-based XSS can occur via the parentheses message. This affects subtitle links in buildSubtitleLinks.","aliases":["CVE-2024-23179"],"modified":"2025-04-03T14:40:37.652Z","published":"2024-03-06T10:55:53.865Z","database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"severity":"Medium"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce%40lists.wikimedia.org/message/TDBUBCCOQJUT4SCHJNPHKQNPBUUETY52/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347746"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23179"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mediawiki","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/mediawiki"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.41.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/mediawiki/BIT-mediawiki-2024-23179.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"}]}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}