CVE-2012-6453

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2012-6453 · Published 31/12/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-6453 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting rssreader (mediawiki).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.98%, higher than 62.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
rssreader mediawiki	`= 0.2= 0.2.1= 0.2.2= 0.2.3= 0.2.4≤ 0.2.5`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RSS Reader extension before 0.2.6 for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted feed.

References

bugs.debian.org/696179
mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader

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