XSS in MediaWiki
CVE-2011-1587
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.4, 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 located before a ? (question mark) in a query string, in conjunction with a modified URI path that has a %2E sequence in place of the . (dot) character. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.017 (75.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mediawiki — versions 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- secalert@redhat.com (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)