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MediaWiki AJAX Module UTF-7 Charset Autodetection Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Title : MediaWiki AJAX Module UTF-7 Charset Autodetection Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-0678
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1054 - CVE-2007-1055
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-02-21

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in MediaWiki, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code [...]

Affected Products

MediaWiki versions prior to 1.9.3
MediaWiki versions prior to 1.8.4
MediaWiki versions prior to 1.7.3
MediaWiki versions prior to 1.6.10

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Moshe BA (BugSec)

ChangeLog

2007-02-21 : Initial release

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