CVE-2011-1578

MediaWiki < 1.16.3 - Cross-Site Scripting via File Upload with Modified URI Path

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (16)

Core 16
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66737
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/44142
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html
Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15
Exploit, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28235

Scores

EPSS 0.0071
EPSS Percentile 72.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (42)
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.1.0
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.0
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.1
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.2
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.3
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.4
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.5
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.6
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.3
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.3.0
... and 32 more
Published Apr 27, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026