Vulnerability CVE-2009-4589
Published: 2010-01-07   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Special:Block implementation in the getContribsLink function in SpecialBlockip.php in MediaWiki 1.14.0 and 1.15.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the ip parameter.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Mediawiki -> Mediawik 
Mediawiki -> Mediawiki 

 References:
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1882
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35662
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19693
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51687
http://secunia.com/advisories/35818
http://osvdb.org/55824
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-July/000087.html
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