# CVE-2024-23171: An issue was discovered in the CampaignEvents extension in MediaWiki before 1.35.14, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.6, and 1.40.x before

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-01-12 · Updated: 2025-06-20

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the CampaignEvents extension in MediaWiki before 1.35.14, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.6, and 1.40.x before 1.40.2. The Special:EventDetails page allows XSS via the x-xss language setting for internationalization (i18n).

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348343
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I70d71c409193e904684dfb706d424b0a815fa6f6

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