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A vulnerability was found in MediaWiki 1.6.5/1.6.5 R14348 (Content Management System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/Sanitizer.php in the variable handler in MediaWiki 1.6.x before r14349 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript via unspecified vectors, possibly involving the usage of the | (pipe) character.
The weakness was released 05/23/2006 by Britt Hackemack (Website). The advisory is available at svn.wikimedia.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-2611 since 05/25/2006. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but an exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept.
Upgrading to version 1.6.x eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (26646).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.9
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VulDB Temp Score: 3.9
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Exploiting
Class: Cross site scriptingCWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1059.007
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: MediaWiki 1.6.x
Timeline
05/23/2006 🔍05/23/2006 🔍
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05/25/2006 🔍
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03/12/2015 🔍
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Sources
Product: mediawiki.orgAdvisory: svn.wikimedia.org
Researcher: Britt Hackemack
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2006-2611 (🔍)
X-Force: 26646 - MediaWiki unspecified handler cross-site scripting
Secunia: 20189 - MediaWiki Script Insertion Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 25713 - MediaWiki Parser Unspecified XSS
Vupen: ADV-2006-1926
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
Entry
Created: 03/12/2015 12:19Updated: 07/27/2018 09:14
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (60), 07/27/2018 09:14 (2)
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