CVE-2019-14807 — In the MobileFrontend extension 1

In the MobileFrontend extension 1.31 through 1.33 for MediaWiki, XSS exists within the edit summary field in includes/specials/MobileSpecialPageFeed.php.

01What is this vulnerability?

In the MobileFrontend extension 1.31 through 1.33 for MediaWiki, XSS exists within the edit summary field in includes/specials/MobileSpecialPageFeed.php.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-08-09T20:28:46.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T00:26:38.775Z

09References

• phabricator.wikimedia.org — https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229541
• gerrit.wikimedia.org — https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/+/08dfc59771d…