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ubuntu-cve-2013-4568

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2013-12-13 18:07

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4568	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55332	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=…	REPORT
	http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-an…	REPORT
	http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	REPORT
	http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4568	REPORT

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      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
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  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:19Z",
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  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
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  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:42:55Z"
}

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-12-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

8 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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Sightings

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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

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