top of page

Sentence 23

​

An XSS issue was discovered in the SportsTeams extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. Within several special pages, a privileged user could inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript within various data fields. The attack could easily propagate across many pages for many users.

Actual

  • Exploit mechanism: XSS

  • Exploit objective: inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript

  • Attack pathway: privileged user, several special pages

Predicted

  • Exploit mechanism: inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript

  • Exploit objective: propagate across many pages for many users

  • Attack pathway: privileged user

bottom of page