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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-4501
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-4501

Description:
MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded "internal placeholder string", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet Explorer.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/23882

SUSE
  http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA18219
  Secunia Advisory: SA18717

CONFIRM
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

BID
  16032


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