CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4408
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.1, 1.12.0, and possibly other versions before 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the useskin parameter to an unspecified component.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.12.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.13.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000078.html lists.wikimedia.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/3 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32128 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32131 secunia.com
- http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_12_1/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES svn.wikimedia.org
- http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES svn.wikimedia.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31540 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2737 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45632 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00179.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00220.html www.redhat.com
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000078.html lists.wikimedia.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/3 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32128 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32131 secunia.com
- http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_12_1/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES svn.wikimedia.org
- http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES svn.wikimedia.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31540 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2737 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45632 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00179.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00220.html www.redhat.com