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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-42041

An issue was discovered in CentralAuth in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rightsnone MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the setchange log.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:29 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-42041

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Oct 2021, 21:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in CentralAuth in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rightsnone MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the setchange log.

osv:CVE-2021-42041
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42041",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-42041",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in CentralAuth in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rightsnone MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the setchange log.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-42041",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-42041",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-mediawiki-2021-42041",
        "CVE-2021-42041"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f65f9d6971578b301ef9fc915a729e6a13266a5e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.36.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.36.2",
            "1.36.1",
            "1.36.0",
            "1.36.0-rc.0",
            "test-hashar-for-ci",
            "1.6.0",
            "1.5.0beta4",
            "1.5.0beta3",
            "1.5.0beta2",
            "1.5.0beta1",
            "1.5.0alpha2",
            "1.5.0alpha1",
            "1.3.0beta1",
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:54.121093464Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I7aeaa6e4de5ccaa5eeb6bf4fb00c96b01d5fea35",
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291696"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-42041",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438080,
  "published_at": "2021-10-06T21:15:07.26+00:00"
}