CVE-2011-1578
EPSS 0.71%mediawiki - multiple
Published: 4/27/2011Modified: 3/9/2026
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, 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 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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/mediawikifrom 0, < 1:1.15.5-5
- Debian/mediawikifrom 0, < 1:1.15.5-2squeeze2