Medium
Security advisory
Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.30.0 through 1.32.1 has XSS. Loading user JavaScript from a non-existent account allows anyone to create the account, and perform XSS on users loading that script. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-12471
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.30.0 through 1.32.1 has XSS. Loading user JavaScript from a non-existent account allows anyone to create the account, and perform XSS on users loading that script. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6.
osv:CVE-2019-12471
Complete source record
{
"id": "a8f1c9673e0ab5b80678f13c51407095dbc368642181b1035485804c0b7d66bf",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12471",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2019-12471",
"summary": "Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.30.0 through 1.32.1 has XSS. Loading user JavaScript from a non-existent account allows anyone to create the account, and perform XSS on users loading that script. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-12471",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2019-12471",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2019-12471",
"GHSA-2rm7-xxx8-35jh"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "830bb58fa2d24eb93d45135c6becd53f6c50d491"
},
{
"fixed": "49fde28a202bfbc89650908d8f5b55339d4bc8b6"
},
{
"introduced": "5cfc9accca2cc2fb94060c309d562913b7bed57c"
},
{
"fixed": "5951e3e30351dbef4afaceccad415b7702d49bc0"
},
{
"introduced": "0fbb878ef366477535a709b0c2564bdcf4b176d1"
},
{
"fixed": "a720399187069dd4134bdbcc33bce3fc09b7b658"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "1.30.0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.30.2"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "1.31.0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.31.2"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "1.32.0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.32.2"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"1.32.1",
"1.32.0",
"1.30.1",
"1.31.1",
"1.31.0",
"1.30.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-12471.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:40.002647669Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207603",
"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/12",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4460",
"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092152.html"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "9.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "9.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
]
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2019-12471",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 434820,
"published_at": "2019-07-10T16:15:11.15+00:00"
}