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CVE-2015-6729
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in thumb.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2 allows…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in thumb.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rel404 parameter, which is not properly handled in an error page.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- GLSA-201510-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150827 Re: CVE Request: MediaWiki 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150812 CVE Request: MediaWiki 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20150810 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-13920 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 76334 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-6667 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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