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Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mediawiki  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1410-MEDIAWIKI-655210
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed23 May 2011
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Introduced: 23 May 2011

CVE-2011-1765  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, 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 .shtml 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578 and CVE-2011-1587.