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medium 4.3

CVE-2014-9480 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Hovercards extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script o…

published 2015-01-16 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-9299

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Hovercards extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to text extracts.

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-2014-9480 updated cvss 4.3

mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities

  • 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

Exploit prediction

1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Intel 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.