CVE-2011-1578
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/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.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.htmlPatch
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.htmlPatch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44142Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366