The MinervaNeue Skin in MediaWiki from 2019-11-05 to 2019-12-13 (1.35 and/or 1.34) mishandles certain HTML attributes, as demonstrated by I…

published 2019-12-19 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-9502

cvss: 6.1; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits: 0; none known

The MinervaNeue Skin in MediaWiki from 2019-11-05 to 2019-12-13 (1.35 and/or 1.34) mishandles certain HTML attributes, as demonstrated by IMG onmouseover= (impact is XSS) and IMG src=http (impact is disclosing the client's IP address). This can occur within a talk page topical header that is viewed within a mobile (MobileFrontend) context.

Patch / fix

links 1

gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ida471291f1698387a26736931ab17e6899e05b51 advisory

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Exploit prediction

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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

gerrit.wikimedia.org /r/q/Ida471291f1698387a26736931ab17e6899e05b51
patch, vendor-advisory
phabricator.wikimedia.org /T240487
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-19910
NVD CVE-2019-19910

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