PT-2011-3356 · Mediawiki · Mediawiki

Masatokinugawa · Published 2011-05-23 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2011-1765

NVD

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-1765

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 10

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28534 · Exploit
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060496.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1765 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060507.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-May/000098.html · Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702512 · Patch
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1765 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/47722 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/44684 · Note