Medium
Security advisory
In MediaWiki through 1.37, Wikibase item descriptions allow XSS, which is triggered upon a visit to an action=info URL (aka a page-information sidebar).
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-45473
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In MediaWiki through 1.37, Wikibase item descriptions allow XSS, which is triggered upon a visit to an action=info URL (aka a page-information sidebar).
osv:CVE-2021-45473
Complete source record
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"id": "12f36c07d0f58e97ad3a67368b033d7af6b3d31e3fad815df94f26e9567f9763",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-45473",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2021-45473",
"summary": "In MediaWiki through 1.37, Wikibase item descriptions allow XSS, which is triggered upon a visit to an action=info URL (aka a page-information sidebar).",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-45473",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
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"aliases": [
"BIT-mediawiki-2021-45473",
"CVE-2021-45473"
],
"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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"type": "GIT",
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},
{
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}
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},
{
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}
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}
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.317813728Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z7JNQA53K675TQBBJPZRAG5ZT6XES3IS/",
"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I3cd080a1a7dacd7396d37ee0c98cff0b4e241f8d",
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294693"
],
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],
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},
{
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}
],
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}
]
}
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}
},
"related_cves": [
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}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439988,
"published_at": "2021-12-24T02:15:07.407+00:00"
}