Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-8812  

MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 allows remote attackers to inject > (greater than) characters via the id attribute of a headline.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Insufficient validation

Description

MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 allows remote attackers to inject > (greater than) characters via the id attribute of a headline.

AVG-490 mediawiki 1.29.1-1 1.29.2-1 High Fixed

15 Nov 2017 ASA-201711-20 AVG-490 mediawiki High multiple issues

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125163
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/31041e4557c2f4b96ef0a16e44bf6be5566a9ffb