Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or…

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted encoded links.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (10)

• ADV-2006-1194 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• GLSA-200604-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• [MediaWiki-announce] 20060327 MediaWiki 1.5.8, 1.4.15 released [SECURITY] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 19517 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2006:007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 17269 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• mediawiki-unspecified-xss(25588) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 19508 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 19504 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2006-1498](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-1498.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-1498)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 17:12 UTC.