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.
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EUVD |
EUVD-2011-1764 | 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. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T22:37:25.890Z
Reserved: 2011-04-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2011-1765
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2011-05-23T22:55:01.317
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2011-1765
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