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Posted on 04 February 2011
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TITLE:
MediaWiki CSS Comments Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43142
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-02-04
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in MediaWiki, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
Certain input passed via CSS comments is not properly sanitised
before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious
data is being viewed.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.16.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.16.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits mghack.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-February/000095.html
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27093
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