CVE-2013-4568 Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-MEDIAWIKI-524484
  • published13 Dec 2013
  • disclosed13 Dec 2013

Introduced: 13 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-4568  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 mediawiki to version 1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via certain non-ASCII characters in CSS, as demonstrated using variations of "expression" containing (1) full width characters or (2) IPA extensions, which are converted and rendered by Internet Explorer.

CVSS Scores

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