CVE-2011-1579
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 27, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 5, 2011
Description
The checkCss function in includes/Sanitizer.php in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly validate Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information by using the \2f\2a and \2a\2f hex strings to surround CSS comments.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- FEDORA-2011-5495vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28450
- ADV-2011-0978vdb-entry
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/85856
- FEDORA-2011-5807vendor-advisory
- 47354vdb-entry
- 44142third-party-advisory
- FEDORA-2011-5848vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-1151vdb-entry
- mediawiki-css-data-xss(66738)vdb-entry
- DSA-2366vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360
- [mediawiki-announce] 20110412 MediaWiki security release 1.16.3mailing-list
- ADV-2011-1100vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2011-5812vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577
- [oss-security] 20110413 Re: CVE request: mediawiki 1.16.3mailing-list
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