CVE-2013-4305 (GCVE-0-2013-4305)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-11 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:38
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in contrib/example.php in the SyntaxHighlight GeSHi extension for MediaWiki, possibly as downloaded before September 2013, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49070 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-an… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://osvdb.org/96909 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2013-09-03 00:00
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