CVE-2012-1582 in MediaWiki

Summary

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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• Reservation: 03/12/2012
• Disclosure: 09/09/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-4910 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-79 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.0
• EPSS: 0.00642
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1582
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1582
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-1582/