CVE-2006-1498

N/A Unknown

Published: March 30, 2006 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted encoded links.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2006-March/000040.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://secunia.com/advisories/19504

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/19508

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/19517

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-01.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_07_sr.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17269

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1194

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25588

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2006-March/000040.html