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CVE-2012-1582

Published: Sep 9, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20120323 CVEs for MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.18.2

mailing-list

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[MediaWiki-announce] 20120322 MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.18.2

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

third-party-advisory

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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35315

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vdb-entry

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[MediaWiki-announce] 20120322 MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.17.3

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

mediawiki-wikitext-xss(74288)

vdb-entry

x_refsource_XF

[oss-security] 20120322 MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.18.2

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

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