CVE-2013-4568 (GCVE-0-2013-4568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-12-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI
Summary
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via certain non-ASCII characters in CSS, as demonstrated using variations of "expression" containing (1) full width characters or (2) IPA extensions, which are converted and rendered by Internet Explorer.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/57472 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=… x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-an… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63761 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55332 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2013-10-05 00:00
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