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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-30458

An issue was discovered in Wikimedia Parsoid before 0.11.1 and 0.12.x before 0.12.2. An attacker can send crafted wikitext that Utils/WTUtils.php will transform by using a tag, bypassing sanitization steps, and potentially allowing for XSS.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:15 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-30458

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Apr 2021, 07:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Wikimedia Parsoid before 0.11.1 and 0.12.x before 0.12.2. An attacker can send crafted wikitext that Utils/WTUtils.php will transform by using a tag, bypassing sanitization steps, and potentially allowing for XSS.

osv:CVE-2021-30458
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-30458",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Wikimedia Parsoid before 0.11.1 and 0.12.x before 0.12.2. An attacker can send crafted wikitext that Utils/WTUtils.php will transform by using a tag, bypassing sanitization steps, and potentially allowing for XSS.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:04.982059284Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40",
        "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid",
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279451"
      ],
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  "document_id": 440648,
  "published_at": "2021-04-09T07:15:16.34+00:00"
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