MediaWiki pretty-printing mode cross-site scripting
| mediawiki-prettyprinting-xss (36558) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
MediaWiki is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the API pretty-printing mode. If the API interface is enabled, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unspecified parameters to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 2.6 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | None |
| Temporal Score: | 1.9 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of MediaWiki (1.11.0, 1.10.2, 1.9.4, 1.8.5, or later), available from the MediaWiki Web site. See References.
References:
- MediaWiki Web site: MediaWiki - MediaWiki.
- MediaWiki-announce Mailing List, Mon Sep 10 22:11:37 UTC 2007: MediaWiki 1.11.0, 1.10.2, 1.9.4, 1.8.5 released (HTML/XSS API injection).
- BID-25632: MediaWiki API Pretty-Printing Mode Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-4828: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the API pretty-printing mode in MediaWiki 1.8.0 through 1.8.4, 1.9.0 through 1.9.3, 1.10.0 through 1.10.1, and the 1.11 development versions before 1.11.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
- SA26772: MediaWiki Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-3130: MediaWiki API Pretty-printing Mode Data Handling Cross Site Scripting Issue
Platforms Affected:
- Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.10 - 1.10.1
- Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.11 - 1.11.0 rc1
- Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.8 - 1.8.4
- Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.9 - 1.9.3
Reported:
Sep 10, 2007
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