CVE-2011-1765

NameCVE-2011-1765
DescriptionCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, when Internet Explorer 6 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an uploaded file accessed with a dangerous extension such as .shtml at the end of the query string, in conjunction with a modified URI path that has a %2E sequence in place of the . (dot) character. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1578 and CVE-2011-1587.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
mediawiki (PTS)buster1:1.31.16-1+deb10u2fixed
buster (security)1:1.31.16-1+deb10u7fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye1:1.35.13-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)1:1.39.5-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1:1.39.6-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
mediawikisource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- mediawiki <not-affected> (Incomplete fix was never released for Debian, neither in sid, nor oldstable/stable)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28534

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