Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-0372  

The SyntaxHighlight extension in MediaWiki before 1.28.1 does not properly validate the 'start' parameter before passing it to Pygments.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Cross-site scripting

Description

The SyntaxHighlight extension in MediaWiki before 1.28.1 does not properly validate the 'start' parameter before passing it to Pygments.

AVG-259 mediawiki 1.28.1-1 1.28.2-1 Medium Fixed

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-April/000207.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158689

Apparently the fix is _not_, I repeat _not_, included in the 1.28.1 tarball: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158689