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Gentoo: GLSA-200609-02 Low: MediaWiki Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 4, 2006
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MediaWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow arbitrary JavaScript code execution.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability Date: April 04, 2006 Bugs: #127971 ID: 200604-01

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 < 1.4.15 >= 1.4.15
========== MediaWiki fails to decode certain encoded URLs correctly.
Impact ===== By supplying specially crafted links, a remote attacker could explo...

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