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CVE-2011-1578

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, when Internet Explorer 6 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to

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Summary

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.

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Affected versions

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References 16

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

lists.fedoraproject.org

vupen.com

securityfocus.com

secunia.com

debian.org

bugzilla.redhat.com

lists.wikimedia.org

openwall.com

bugzilla.wikimedia.org