CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1582
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-09-09
- 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 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.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.17
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/80363 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315 bugzilla.wikimedia.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74288 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/80363 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315 bugzilla.wikimedia.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74288 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com