MediaWiki XSS Vulnerability with Dangerous File Extension and Modified URI Path

CVE-2011-1578 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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