CVE-2012-1582: XSS
First published: Sun Sep 09 2012(Updated: )
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted page with "forged strip item markers," as demonstrated using the CharInsert extension.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17-beta_1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17.0 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17.0-rc1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17.1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17.2 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18-beta_1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18.0 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18.0-rc1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
- http://osvdb.org/80363
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74288
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/tags
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- vendor/mediawiki
- canonical/mediawiki mediawiki
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17-beta_1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17.0
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17.0-rc1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17.1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17.2
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18-beta_1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18.0
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18.0-rc1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18.1