Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1578

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-04-27 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 22:28:41
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.