CVE-2011-1578

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Apr 27, 2011
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2011-1578: Medium severity, CVSS 4.3 | Vulnix