CVE-2011-1579
CVE-2011-1579
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The checkCss function in includes/Sanitizer.php in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly validate Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information by using the \2f\2a and \2a\2f hex strings to surround CSS comments.
EPSS 1.9% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28450
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/85856
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44142
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66738
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1579