CVE-2011-1578

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1578
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2011-1578.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2011-1578
Downstream
Published
2011-04-27T00:55:04Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
Summary
[none]
Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.3, 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 .html 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.

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Affected packages