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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-33 Low Severity: MediaWiki XSS Issues

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
MediaWiki contains minor security flaws that enable XSS attacks and unauthorized data alteration. Upgrade to version 1.3.11 to reduce potential threats.
MediaWiki is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, data manipulation and security bypass attacks.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-33 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: February 28, 2005 Bugs: #80729, #82954 ID: 200502-33

Synopsis ======= MediaWiki is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, data manipulation and security bypass attacks.
Background ========= MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia.
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