Medium · 5.4 CVE-2024-23178 EUVD-2024-20697GHSA-wwvh-g99g-xv29

An issue was discovered in the Phonos extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. PhonosButton.js allows i18n-based XSS via the phonos-purge-need…

Published Jan 12, 2024 · Updated Jun 3, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in the Phonos extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. PhonosButton.js allows i18n-based XSS via the phonos-purge-needed-error message.

Advisories 1

WID-SEC-2024-0083 MediaWiki: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Cross-Site Scripting BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Sep 13, 2026

References

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce%40lists.wikimedia.org/message/TDBUBCCOQJUT4SCHJNPHKQNPBUUETY52/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349312