Improper input validation in MediaWiki

CVE-2011-1579

The checkCss function in includes/Sanitizer.php in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly validate Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information by using the \2f\2a and \2a\2f hex strings to surround CSS comments.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.019 (77.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

References