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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5250

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5250

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/19/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-mediawiki

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