# CVE-2014-7295: The (1) Special:Preferences and (2) Special:UserLogin pages in MediaWiki before 1.19.20, 1.22.x before 1.22.12 and 1.23.x before 1.23.5 allo

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2014-10-07 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The (1) Special:Preferences and (2) Special:UserLogin pages in MediaWiki before 1.19.20, 1.22.x before 1.22.12 and 1.23.x before 1.23.5 allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or have unspecified other impact via crafted CSS, as demonstrated by modifying MediaWiki:Common.css.

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## References

- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70672
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-October/000163.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3046
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61752
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/67
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70238

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