Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-1498 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mediawiki
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN mediawiki
nessus
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted encoded links.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_74B7403CC4D511DAB2FB000E0C2E438A.NASL description The mediawiki development team reports that there is an site scripting vulnerability within mediawiki. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of encoded links which could allow the injection of html in the output generated by mediawiki. This could lead to cross site scripting attacks against mediawiki installations. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 21453 published 2006-05-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21453 title FreeBSD : mediawiki -- XSS vulnerability (74b7403c-c4d5-11da-b2fb-000e0c2e438a) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(21453); script_version("1.14"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:38"); script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1498"); script_bugtraq_id(17269); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : mediawiki -- XSS vulnerability (74b7403c-c4d5-11da-b2fb-000e0c2e438a)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The mediawiki development team reports that there is an site scripting vulnerability within mediawiki. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of encoded links which could allow the injection of html in the output generated by mediawiki. This could lead to cross site scripting attacks against mediawiki installations." ); # http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2006-March/000040.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?d72f54f2" ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/74b7403c-c4d5-11da-b2fb-000e0c2e438a.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?1524449a" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mediawiki"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/03/27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/04/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/05/13"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"mediawiki>=1.4<1.4.14")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"mediawiki>=1.5<1.5.7")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200604-01.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200604-01 (MediaWiki: XSS vulnerability) MediaWiki fails to decode certain encoded URLs correctly. Impact : 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 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 21194 published 2006-04-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21194 title GLSA-200604-01 : MediaWiki: XSS vulnerability
References
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2006-March/000040.html
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17269
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-01.xml
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_07_sr.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19504
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19508
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19517
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1194
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25588