Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in api.php in (1) MediaWiki 1.11 through 1.11.0rc1, 1.10 through 1.10.2, 1.9 through 1.9.4, and…

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in api.php in (1) MediaWiki 1.11 through 1.11.0rc1, 1.10 through 1.10.2, 1.9 through 1.9.4, and 1.8; and (2) the BotQuery extension for MediaWiki 1.7 and earlier; when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

14.6% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (4 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
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• mediawiki-api-xss(39901) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-2288 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• ADV-2008-0280 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-2245 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 28137 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [MediaWiki-announce] 20080124 MediaWiki 1.11.1, 1.10.3, 1.9.5 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 28629 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 29266 (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-2008-0460](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-0460.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-0460)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 07:46 UTC.