Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via certain non-ASCII characters in CSS, as demonstrated using variations of "expression" containing (1) full width characters or (2) IPA extensions, which are converted and rendered by Internet Explorer.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2891-1 mediawiki security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2891-2 mediawiki regression update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2891-3 mediawiki regression update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-4426 Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via certain non-ASCII characters in CSS, as demonstrated using variations of "expression" containing (1) full width characters or (2) IPA extensions, which are converted and rendered by Internet Explorer.
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00438}

epss

{'score': 0.00448}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T16:45:14.820Z

Reserved: 2013-06-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-4568

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-12-13T18:07:54.093

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-4568

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