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MediaWiki Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') Vulnerability (CVE-2007-1055)

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in index.php in MediaWiki 1.9.x before 1.9.0rc2, and 1.8.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rs parameter. NOTE: this issue might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0177.

Remediation

References

CVE-2007-1055

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2007-1055 CWE-94

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities

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