CVE-2014-2244: Mediawiki

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the formatHTML function in includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string located after http:// in the text parameter to api.php.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: up to and including 1.19.11; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.10.0 only; version 1.10.1 only; version 1.10.2 only; version 1.10.3 only; …

Published 2014-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.