PT-2005-2258 · Mediawiki · Mediawiki

Published 2005-04-24 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2005-1245

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: MediaWiki versions prior to 1.4.2

Description: A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This occurs when using HTML Tidy, enabled by $wgUseTidy, via unknown vectors.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 1.4.2, update to version 1.4.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the use of HTML Tidy by setting $wgUseTidy to false until a patch is applied.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1245

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 10

• http://secunia.com/advisories/14993 · Patch
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=322146 · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13301 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1245 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-1245 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1245 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1245 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/15719 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20210 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1245 · Note