FKIE_CVE-2012-6453

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-12-31 11:50 - Updated: 2026-04-29 01:13
Severity
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RSS Reader extension before 0.2.6 for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted feed.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/696179
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader#0.2.6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.debian.org/696179
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader#0.2.6
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mediawiki rssreader *
mediawiki rssreader 0.2
mediawiki rssreader 0.2.1
mediawiki rssreader 0.2.2
mediawiki rssreader 0.2.3
mediawiki rssreader 0.2.4
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