National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1765

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, when Internet Explorer 6 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an uploaded file accessed with a dangerous extension such as .shtml at the end of the query string, in conjunction with a modified URI path that has a %2E sequence in place of the . (dot) character. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578 and CVE-2011-1587.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702512

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702512

External Source: MLIST

Name: [mediawiki-announce] 20110505 MediaWiki security release 1.16.5

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-May/000098.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28534

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28534

External Source: BID

Name: 47722

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47722

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44684

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44684

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-6775

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060507.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-6774

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060496.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-6781

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435.html