CVE-2011-1578

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CVE-2011-1578

Summary:

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.

References: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/44142, http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28235, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html, http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28235, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66737