CVE-2011-1579 (GCVE-0-2011-1579)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-04-27 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:28
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The checkCss function in includes/Sanitizer.php in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly validate Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information by using the \2f\2a and \2a\2f hex strings to surround CSS comments.
References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28450 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/85856 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/44142 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66738 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
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