From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 12:21:39 CDT

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TITLE:
MediaWiki Move Template Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15950

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15950/

CRITICAL:
Less 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 cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to an unspecified parameter in the page move template
isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can
be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.4beta6 through 1.4.5
and versions prior to 1.5beta3 for the 1.5.x releases.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.6.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34373

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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