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MediaWiki AJAX "rs" Cross-Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA23647
Release Date: 2007-01-09
Last Update: 2007-02-21
Popularity: 10,810 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:MediaWiki 1.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in MediaWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "rs" parameter in index.php when "action" is set to "ajax" is not 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 an affected site.

Successful exploitation requires that $wgUseAjax is set to true, which is not its default setting.

The vulnerability is confirmed in the 1.6.x branch before 1.6.9, the 1.7.x branch before 1.7.2, and the 1.8.x branch before 1.8.3.

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