CVE-2012-1582

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted page with "forged strip item markers," as demonstrated using the CharInsert extension.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74288

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9

http://secunia.com/advisories/48504

http://osvdb.org/80363

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3