CVE-2011-1587

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 27, 2011
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Apr 5, 2011

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.4, 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 .html located before a ? (question mark) in a 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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20110418 Re: CVE request: mediawiki 1.16.4, incomplete fix of CVE-2011-1578mailing-list
DSA-2366vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360
[mediawiki-announce] 20110414 MediaWiki security release 1.16.4mailing-list

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