TITLE:
MediaWiki Encoded Links Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19508

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
MediaWiki 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/2546/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in MediaWiki, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed in encoded links is not properly sanitised before being
displayed. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script
code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when
the malicious data is viewed.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.8 or 1.4.15.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2006-March/000040.html

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