metadata/glsa/glsa-200604-01.xml

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<glsa id="200604-01">
  <title>MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    MediaWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow
    arbitrary JavaScript code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mediawiki</product>
  <announced>April 04, 2006</announced>
  <revised>April 04, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>127971</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-apps/mediawiki" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.15</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.15</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big
    projects like Wikipedia.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    MediaWiki fails to decode certain encoded URLs correctly.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>
    By supplying specially crafted links, a remote attacker could
    exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious HTML or JavaScript code
    that will be executed in a user's browser session in the context of the
    vulnerable site.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All MediaWiki users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apps/mediawiki-1.4.15&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1498">CVE-2006-1498</uri>
    <uri link="http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=404869">MediaWiki 1.4.15 Release Notes</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:58:31 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:58:55 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:15:00 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
</glsa>