CVE-2010-1189 Information

Description

MediaWiki before 1.15.2 does not prevent wiki editors from linking to images from other web sites in wiki pages which allows editors to obtain IP addresses and other information of wiki users by adding a link to an image on an attacker-controlled web site aka \CSS validation issue.\

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-March/000088.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39022 http://secunia.com/advisories/39656 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2022 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0685 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1001