Vulnerability in Mediawiki

CVE-2005-4501

MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded "internal placeholder string", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet Explorer.

EPSS: 0.014 (70.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Mediawiki — versions 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

References