PT-2008-6392 · Wikimedia · Mediawiki

Published 2008-12-19 · Updated 2009-10-14 · CVE-2008-5250

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.5

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.6.11 MediaWiki versions 1.12.x prior to 1.12.2 MediaWiki versions 1.13.x prior to 1.13.3

Description A cross-site scripting issue allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page when using Internet Explorer with uploads enabled, or an SVG scripting browser with SVG uploads enabled.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.6.11, update to version 1.6.11 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.12.x prior to 1.12.2, update to version 1.12.2 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.13.x prior to 1.13.3, update to version 1.13.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5250

DSA-1901-1

DTSA-186-1

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 13

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5250 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5250 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5250 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5250 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33133 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5250 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33349 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32844 · Note