An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-29031 An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-04T03:22:25.656Z

Reserved: 2021-10-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-42043

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-06T21:15:07.337

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:27:07.510

Link: CVE-2021-42043

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