CVE-2011-1579 | BDVDB-2026-45933 Detail
Description#
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- 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
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.