CVE-2011-1765
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, 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 .shtml 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578 and CVE-2011-1587.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
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.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-May/000098.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-May/000098.htmlPatch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702512Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060496.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060507.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44684
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47722
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28534Exploit