4.3

CVE-2015-2939: mediawiki scribunto Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2015-2939DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2939
Published 13-04-2015Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-2939 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in mediawiki scribunto. EPSS estimates a 2.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
18/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.09%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
MGASA-2015-0142

Timeline

  1. 13-04-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.09%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

81%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.09% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
2.09%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • mediawiki< 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
Mediawiki1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • mediawiki< 1:1.27.4-3

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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