Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2939

Title: Mediawiki Scribunto Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2939.

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date Apr 13, 2015
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.41%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2939: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Scribunto extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a function name, which is not properly handled in a Lua error backtrace.

Impacted Vendors

M
mediawiki 1
X
xtex 1

Reference Links

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85113 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85113 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2939 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.