CVE-2005-4501 Information

Description

MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded \internal placeholder string\ which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes which are processed by Internet Explorer.

Reference

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18219 http://secunia.com/advisories/18717 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16032 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3059 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23882