MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a CDATA section containing valid UTF-7 encoded sequences in a SVG file, which is then incorrectly interpreted as UTF-8 by Chrome and Firefox.
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| Hyperlink | Resource Type |
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MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a CDATA section containing valid UTF-7 encoded sequences in a SVG file, which is then incorrectly interpreted as UTF-8 by Chrome and Firefox.
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| text | N/A | n/a |
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| CAPEC ID | Description |
|---|
| Event | Date |
|---|
| Hyperlink | Resource |
|---|---|
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105825.html | vendor-advisory x_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/57472 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47304 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/55433 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106293.html | vendor-advisory x_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105784.html | vendor-advisory x_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59594 | vdb-entry x_refsource_BID |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml | vendor-advisory x_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-April/000129.html | mailing-list x_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/01/2 | mailing-list x_refsource_MLIST |
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| CAPEC ID | Description |
|---|
| Event | Date |
|---|
MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a CDATA section containing valid UTF-7 encoded sequences in a SVG file, which is then incorrectly interpreted as UTF-8 by Chrome and Firefox.
| Date Added | Due Date | Vulnerability Name | Required Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A |
| Type | Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | 2.0 | 4.3 | MEDIUM | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |