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CVE-2011-1765

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
23/05/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, when Internet Explorer 6 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an uploaded file accessed with a dangerous extension such as .shtml at the end of the query string, in conjunction with a modified URI path that has a %2E sequence in place of the . (dot) character. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578 and CVE-2011-1587.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.16.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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