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MediaWiki: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2005-3167)

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MediaWiki: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2005-3167)

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

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.4.11 does not properly remove certain CSS inputs (HTML inline style attributes) that are processed as active content by Internet Explorer, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

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