Description
MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a CDATA section containing valid UTF-7 encoded sequences in a SVG file, which is then incorrectly interpreted as UTF-8 by Chrome and Firefox.
References (11)
Core 11
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105825.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/57472
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47304
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/55433
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106293.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105784.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59594
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml
Patch mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-April/000129.html
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/01/2
Scores
EPSS
0.0160
EPSS Percentile
82.0%
Details
CWE
CWE-79
Status
published
Products (37)
gentoo/linux
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.1.0
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.10.0 (3 CPE variants)
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.10.1
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.10.2
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.10.3
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.10.4
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.11
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.11.0 (2 CPE variants)
mediawiki/mediawiki
1.11.1
... and 27 more
Published
Nov 18, 2013
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026