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CVE-2008-5250

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
19/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.

Impact

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

Base Score: 3.50 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0
3.50
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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