FKIE_CVE-2013-4305

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-10-11 21:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:56
Severity
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://osvdb.org/96909
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49070Exploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86890
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/96909
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49070Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86890
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mediawiki mediawiki 1.19.7
mediawiki mediawiki 1.20.6
mediawiki mediawiki 1.21.1
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