MediaWiki Unspecified HTML Tidy Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:13301

Info

MediaWiki Unspecified HTML Tidy Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13301
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 21 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 21 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Announced by the vendor.
Vulnerable: MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta5
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta4
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta3
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta2
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta1
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.11
+ Gentoo Linux
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.10
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.9
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.8
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.7
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

MediaWiki Unspecified HTML Tidy Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

MediaWiki is prone to an unspecified cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker may leverage these issues to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Versions of MediaWiki prior to 1.4.2 are vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

MediaWiki Unspecified HTML Tidy Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

MediaWiki Unspecified HTML Tidy Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released MediaWiki 1.4.2 to address this issue.


MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.1

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.10

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.11

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.2

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.3

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.4

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.5

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.6

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.7

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.8

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.3.9

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta3

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta2

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta4

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta1

MediaWiki MediaWiki 1.4 beta5

References

MediaWiki Unspecified HTML Tidy Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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