Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in the GlobalWatchlist extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rev-deleted-user and ntimes messages were not properly escaped and allowed for users to inject HTML and JavaScript.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-42046
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in the GlobalWatchlist extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rev-deleted-user and ntimes messages were not properly escaped and allowed for users to inject HTML and JavaScript.
osv:CVE-2021-42046
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42046",
"method": "structured",
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"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2021-42046",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in the GlobalWatchlist extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rev-deleted-user and ntimes messages were not properly escaped and allowed for users to inject HTML and JavaScript.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-42046",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
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"aliases": [
"BIT-mediawiki-2021-42046",
"CVE-2021-42046"
],
"metrics": [
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"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",
"events": [
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},
{
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}
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{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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},
{
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}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
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"versions": [
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"1.36.0-rc.0",
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"1.5.0beta2",
"1.5.0beta1",
"1.5.0alpha2",
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"1.3.0beta1",
"1.1.0"
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"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42046.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:38.346807593Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286385",
"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ib7f9b009730fe0df283cec1169f84c7a83a58b1d",
"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id2204fb5afe591d63764466de35ac0aaa5999983"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2021-42046",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 434425,
"published_at": "2022-09-29T03:15:14.597+00:00"
}