PT-2013-5079 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Pleasestand · Published 2013-12-12 · Updated 2016-12-31 · CVE-2013-4568

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 1.19.x through 1.19.8 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.20.7 MediaWiki versions 1.21.x through 1.21.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via certain non-ASCII characters in CSS. This can be achieved by using variations of "expression" containing full width characters or IPA extensions, which are converted and rendered by Internet Explorer.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.19.x through 1.19.8, update to version 1.19.9 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.20.7, update to version 1.20.8 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.21.x through 1.21.2, update to version 1.21.3 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1172

CVE-2013-4568

DSA-2891-1

MGASA-2013-0368

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 42

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/mediawiki_thumb.rb · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3454 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1172 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1610 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5394 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4568 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4568 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4570 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4572 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4569 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4567 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6453 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4568 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6454 · Security Note