Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.4, 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 located before a ? (question mark) in a 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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2011-04-27T00:00:00

Updated: 2012-01-19T10:00:00

Reserved: 2011-04-05T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2011-1587

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-04-27T00:55:04.773

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:07:03.393


Link: CVE-2011-1587

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