CVE-2005-4501

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded "internal placeholder string", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet Explorer.

MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded "internal placeholder string", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet Explorer.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-22 21:03:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:29:00

Affected Software

MediaWiki 1.1.0

1.1.0

MediaWiki 1.2.0

1.2.0

MediaWiki 1.2.1

1.2.1

MediaWiki 1.2.2

1.2.2

MediaWiki 1.2.3

1.2.3

MediaWiki 1.2.4

1.2.4

MediaWiki 1.2.5

1.2.5

MediaWiki 1.2.6

1.2.6

MediaWiki 1.3

1.3

MediaWiki 1.3.0

1.3.0

MediaWiki 1.3.1

1.3.1

MediaWiki 1.3.2

1.3.2

MediaWiki 1.3.3

1.3.3

MediaWiki 1.3.4

1.3.4

MediaWiki 1.3.5

1.3.5

MediaWiki 1.3.6

1.3.6

MediaWiki 1.3.7

1.3.7

MediaWiki 1.3.8

1.3.8

MediaWiki 1.3.9

1.3.9

MediaWiki 1.3.10

1.3.10

MediaWiki 1.3.11

1.3.11

MediaWiki 1.3.12

1.3.12

MediaWiki 1.3.13

1.3.13

MediaWiki 1.3.14

1.3.14

MediaWiki 1.3.15

1.3.15

MediaWiki 1.4.1

1.4.1

MediaWiki 1.4.2

1.4.2

MediaWiki 1.4.3

1.4.3

MediaWiki 1.4.5

1.4.5

MediaWiki 1.4.6

1.4.6

MediaWiki 1.4.7

1.4.7

MediaWiki 1.4.8

1.4.8

MediaWiki 1.4.9

1.4.9

MediaWiki 1.4.10

1.4.10

Mediawiki

References

SUSE-SR:2006:003

18219

Patch, Vendor Advisory

18717

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

16032

ADV-2005-3059

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