CVE-2011-1578 — Cross-site Scripting in Mediawiki
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 27
Latest updateMay 13
Description
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.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9
Affected Packages3 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
5📋Vendor Advisories
3Debian▶
CVE-2011-1578: mediawiki - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, when Intern...↗2011
Debian▶
CVE-2011-1587: mediawiki - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.4, when Intern...↗2011
Debian▶
CVE-2011-1765: mediawiki - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, when Intern...↗2011
💬Community
3Bugzilla▶
CVE-2011-1578 CVE-2011-1579 CVE-2011-1580 CVE-2011-1587 mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 1.16.3, 1.16.4↗2011-04-13
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2011-1578 CVE-2011-1579 CVE-2011-1580 CVE-2011-1765 mediawiki116 various flaws [epel-all]↗2011-04-13
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2011-1578 CVE-2011-1579 CVE-2011-1580 mediawiki: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 1.16.3 [fedora-all]↗2011-04-13