CVE-2024-23179

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

6.1 medium

EPSS

<1%p36

Published

Jan 12, 2024 (Jan 12, 2024)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:GlobalBlock?uselang=x-xss URI, i18n-based XSS can occur via the parentheses message. This affects subtitle links in buildSubtitleLinks.

Vendors: mediawiki
Products: mediawiki
Weakness: CWE-79
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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