CVE-2012-1582

Mediawiki - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted page with "forged strip item markers," as demonstrated using the CharInsert extension.

References (9)

[Vendor Advisory] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://osvdb.org/80363

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/48504

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74288

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1

Scores

EPSS 0.0064

EPSS Percentile 70.3%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (12)

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

mediawiki/mediawiki

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Sep 09, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026