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mediawiki -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Affected packages
1.10.0	<	mediawiki	<	1.10.2
1.9.0	<	mediawiki	<	1.9.4
1.8.0	<	mediawiki	<	1.8.5

Details

VuXML ID	c9c14242-6843-11dc-82b6-02e0185f8d72
Discovery	2007-09-10
Entry	2007-09-21
Modified	2007-10-10

The MediaWiki development team reports:

A possible HTML/XSS injection vector in the API pretty-printing mode has been found and fixed.

The vulnerability may be worked around in an unfixed version by simply disabling the API interface if it is not in use, by adding this to LocalSettings.php:

$wgEnableAPI = false;

(This is the default setting in 1.8.x.)

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2007-4828
URL	http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2007-September/000067.html