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MediaWiki: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2005-3165)

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MediaWiki: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2005-3165)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/06/2005
Created
10/26/2019
Added
10/23/2019
Modified
06/27/2022

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) <math> tags or (2) Extension or <nowiki> sections that "bypass HTML style attribute restrictions" that are intended to protect against XSS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer clients.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

References

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