Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, 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 .html 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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2011-1578

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2011-1578 CWE-707

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities