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MediaWiki: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') (CVE-2007-1055)

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MediaWiki: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') (CVE-2007-1055)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/21/2007
Created
10/26/2019
Added
10/23/2019
Modified
10/23/2019

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in index.php in MediaWiki 1.9.x before 1.9.0rc2, and 1.8.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rs parameter. NOTE: this issue might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0177.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

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