CVE-2011-1578 Information

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 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 .html 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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15 http://secunia.com/advisories/44142 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28235 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66737