CVE-2008-5250
LOW severity · CVSS 3.5 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
3.5CVSS LOW
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.htmlPatch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33133Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html