National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5250
Original release date:12/19/2008
Last revised:02/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33133
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [mediawiki-announce] 20081215 MediaWiki 1.13.3, 1.12.2, 1.6.11 security update
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-11802
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-11688
External Source: BID
Name: 32844
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33349
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:004