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MediaWiki Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2011-1765 - Vulnerability Database
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MediaWiki Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2011-1765

Medium
Reference: CVE-2011-1765
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1765
Title: MediaWiki Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability
Overview:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.5 when Internet Explorer 6 or earlier is used allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an uploaded file accessed with a dangerous extension such as .shtml at the end of the query string in conjunction with a modified URI path that has a 2E sequence in place of the . (dot) character. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578 and CVE-2011-1587.