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CVE-2017-0372

A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.

  • Published2018-04-13
  • WeaknessCWE-74

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Description

Parameters injection in the SyntaxHighlight extension of Mediawiki before 1.23.16, 1.27.3 and 1.28.2 might result in multiple vulnerabilities.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2018-04-1316:29CVE publishedNVD

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-11-02 21:37 UTC
Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days
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Versions per branch

NVD
Mediawiki
BranchAffectedFixed in
1.23≤ 1.23.15no fix published
1.27= 1.27.0no fix published
1.27= 1.27.1no fix published
1.27= 1.27.2no fix published
1.28= 1.28.0no fix published
1.28= 1.28.1no fix published
Debian debian linux
BranchAffectedFixed in
7.0= 7.0no fix published
9.0= 9.0no fix published

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Distribution builds and vendor advisories

Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.

version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.

Packages

  • mediawikiDebian:14all versions · fixed in 1:1.27.3-1
  • mediawikiDebian:13all versions · fixed in 1:1.27.3-1
  • mediawikiDebian:12all versions · fixed in 1:1.27.3-1

Vendor advisories

  • CVE-2017-0372 Red Hat Product Security

    mediawiki: SyntaxHighlight extension allows injection of arbitrary Pygments options

Full record on NVD

Fix

Advisories and patches

Detection

Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Proof-of-concept repositories
none listed
PoC-in-GitHub
Metasploit modules
1 moduleexploit/multi/http/mediawiki_syntaxhighlightrank: goodModule metadata: Metasploit Framework, © Rapid7, Inc., BSD-3-Clause.
Metasploit Framework

Sources

Identifiers

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2018-04-13
Last Modified
2026-06-17
NVD status
Modified
GitHub Advisory
GHSA-c759-44hj-j247

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-0372?

Parameters injection in the SyntaxHighlight extension of Mediawiki before 1.23.16, 1.27.3 and 1.28.2 might result in multiple vulnerabilities.

Is CVE-2017-0372 actively exploited?

Active exploitation of CVE-2017-0372 has not been confirmed. Its EPSS score was 11.3% on 2026-11-02, the estimated probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2017-0372?

CVE-2017-0372 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL severity), with vector string CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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