Arbitrary Script Injection Vulnerability in MediaWiki's Wikitext Parser

CVE-2012-1582 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted page with "forged strip item markers," as demonstrated using the CharInsert extension.

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