CVE-2008-5250 (GCVE-0-2008-5250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-19 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/33133 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-an… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33349 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2008-12-15 00:00
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