# CVE-2021-42043: An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-10-06 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.

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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291600
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/If64eb5842237c92290d07ebc3fe14710d9de3fc2

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