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CVE-2011-1578

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, when Internet Explorer 6 or earlier is used, allows

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, when Internet Explorer 6 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an uploaded file accessed with a dangerous extension such as .html at the end of the query string, in conjunction with a modified URI path that has a %2E sequence in place of the . (dot) character.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.00712

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Public exploit or PoC is available

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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Affected Products & Versions

2

mediawiki<= 1.16.2

mediawikiall versions

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Public Exploits & PoCs

1

pocbugzilla.wikimedia.org · show_bug.cgi?id=28235bugzilla.wikimedia.org

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Scoring & Timeline

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published to NVD27 Apr 2011 · 12:55 AM

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References & Sources

15

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.htmlPatch

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.htmlPatchVendor Advisory

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15Patch

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http://secunia.com/advisories/44142Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978Vendor Advisory

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577Patch

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360Patch

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66737

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