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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2024-23176 json

An issue was discovered in the MassMessage extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2.

published 2026-09-14 56 d ago modified 2026-09-28 42 d ago also EUVD-2024-55763

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the MassMessage extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:MassMessage?uselang=x-xss URL, the i18n key massmessage-form-page-help allows XSS.

Patch / fix

  • MediaWiki MassMessage 1.40.2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-23176 updated cvss 5.4

MassMessage: mediawiki: MediaWiki MassMessage: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via crafted URL allows arbitrary script execution.

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
55 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • MediaWiki MassMessage

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.