CVE-2008-0460

Mediawiki vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

14.6%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in api.php in (1) MediaWiki 1.11 through 1.11.0rc1, 1.10 through 1.10.2, 1.9 through 1.9.4, and 1.8; and (2) the BotQuery extension for MediaWiki 1.7 and earlier; when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected vendor

Mediawiki

Affected product

Mediawiki

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2008-01-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 14.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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