Bug 2081078 (CVE-2022-29969) - CVE-2022-29969 mediawiki: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in RSS plugin
Summary: CVE-2022-29969 mediawiki: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in RSS plugin
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2022-29969
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2081079
Blocks: 2081092
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-05-02 17:16 UTC by Todd Cullum
Modified: 2022-05-04 14:54 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: mediawiki 1.39.0
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A flaw was found in the RSS extension of MediaWiki. This flaw allows a remote attacker to cause a Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack if the feed is in $wgRSSUrlWhitelist and the $wgRSSAllowLinkTag is true.
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Last Closed: 2022-05-04 09:45:19 UTC
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Description Todd Cullum 2022-05-02 17:16:34 UTC 
The RSS extension before 2022-04-29 for MediaWiki allows XSS via an rss element (if the feed is in $wgRSSUrlWhitelist and $wgRSSAllowLinkTag is true).

References:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307028
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/787807
Comment 1 Todd Cullum 2022-05-02 17:16:50 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2081079]
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-05-04 09:45:16 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-29969
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