CVE-2011-1765
MediaWiki < 1.16.5 - Cross-Site Scripting via File Upload with Modified URI Path
Title source: llmDescription
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, 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 .shtml 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578 and CVE-2011-1587.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060496.html
Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702512
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/44684
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47722
Patch mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-May/000098.html
Exploit x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28534
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060507.html
Scores
EPSS
0.0033
EPSS Percentile
56.0%
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
May 23, 2011
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026