MediaWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow arbitrary JavaScript code execution.
Package | www-apps/mediawiki on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 1.4.6 |
Unaffected versions | >= 1.4.6 |
MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia.
MediaWiki fails to escape a parameter in the page move template correctly.
By enticing a user to visit a specially crafted URL, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript code that will be executed in a user's browser session in the context of the vulnerable site.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All MediaWiki users should upgrade to the latest available version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mediawiki-1.4.7"
Release date
July 20, 2005
Latest revision
August 11, 2005: 03
Severity
low
Exploitable
remote
Bugzilla entries