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MediaWiki Sortable Tables Script Insertion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24039
Release Date: 2007-02-05
Last Update: 2007-03-27
Popularity: 9,494 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of system information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:MediaWiki 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0787
CVE-2007-0788
CVE-2007-0894


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in MediaWiki, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain input related to the "sortable table" feature is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in 1.9.x versions prior to 1.9.2.

Note: Some path disclosure issues in wiki/skins/Simple.deps.php, wiki/skins/MonoBook.deps.php, wiki/skins/MySkin.deps.php, and wiki/skins/Chick.deps.php were also reported.

Solution:
Update to version 1.9.2.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Path disclosure issues reported by Raphaël HUCK.

Changelog:
2007-02-09: Added CVE reference.
2007-03-27: Added information about path disclosure. Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_9_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8819


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