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Gentoo GLSA: 200507-18 Low Severity MediaWiki Cross-Site Scripting

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2005
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Explore Gentoo GLSA 200507-19 highlighting a MediaWiki vulnerability exposing users to cross-site scripting attacks, facilitating JavaScript intrusions.
MediaWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow arbitrary JavaScript code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability Date: July 20, 2005 Bugs: #99132 ID: 200507-18

Synopsis ======= MediaWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow arbitrary JavaScript code execution.
Background ========= MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/mediawiki < 1.4.7 >= 1.4.7
========== MediaWiki fails to escape a parameter in the page move template correctly.
Impact ===== By enticing a user to visit a specially crafted URL,...

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