CVE-2011-1587

MediaWiki < 1.16.4 - 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 1.16.4, 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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/5
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/000097.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 44.8%

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