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.
Published: 2011-04-27
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2366-1 mediawiki security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-1587 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.
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Mediawiki Mediawiki
Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:28:41.933Z

Reserved: 2011-04-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-1587

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Status : Modified

Published: 2011-04-27T00:55:04.773

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-1587

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