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MediaWiki Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA14360  
Release Date: 2005-02-22
Last Update: 2005-02-28

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:MediaWiki 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-0534 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-0535 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-0536 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MediaWiki, which can be exploited by malicious users to delete arbitrary files, and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and bypass certain security restrictions.

1) Some unspecified input in the link formatting isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

2) Input passed to an unspecified parameter when deleting images isn't properly sanitised. This can be exploited by authenticated administrators to delete arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.

3) Various actions requiring authentication can be executed via an off-site form. This can be exploited to execute various actions by tricking an authenticated user into visiting a malicious website.

Solution:
Update to version 1.3.11.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34373

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2005-02-28: Added CVE references.



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