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CVE-2011-1578
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, when Internet Explorer 6 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.6%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, 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 .html 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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (16)
- mediawiki-file-extensions-xss(66737) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-5495 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0978 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-5807 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 47354 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 44142 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-5848 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-1151 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- DSA-2366 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [mediawiki-announce] 20110412 MediaWiki security release 1.16.3 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- ADV-2011-1100 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-5812 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110413 Re: CVE request: mediawiki 1.16.3 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28235 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
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