PT-2005-5183 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Published 2005-12-22 · Updated 2017-07-20 · CVE-2005-4501

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 1.5.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This is achieved by utilizing a hard-coded internal placeholder string, enabling the execution of Javascript using inline style attributes that are processed by Internet Explorer.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.5.4, update to version 1.5.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4501

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Mediawiki

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4501 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/16032 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-4501 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4501 · Security Note
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4501 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Download · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18219 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3059 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23882 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4501 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18717 · Note