Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2008-5250 First vendor Publication 2008-12-19
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2009-10-14

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 3.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 6.8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5250

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 6

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-06 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1901-1 (mediawiki1.7)
File : nvt/deb_1901_1.nasl
2009-07-29 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-7750 (mediawiki)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_7750.nasl
2009-03-07 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-2231 (mediawiki)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_2231.nasl
2009-03-07 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-2237 (mediawiki)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_2237.nasl
2009-02-18 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:004
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_004.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Update for mediawiki FEDORA-2008-11688
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_11688_mediawiki_fc8.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Update for mediawiki FEDORA-2008-11743
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_11743_mediawiki_fc10.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Update for mediawiki FEDORA-2008-11802
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_11802_mediawiki_fc9.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : MediaWiki Multiple Vulnerabilities Dec08
File : nvt/secpod_mediawiki_mult_vuln_dec08.nasl
2008-12-23 Name : FreeBSD Ports: mediawiki
File : nvt/freebsd_mediawiki2.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50957 MediaWiki Wiki Page Editing XSS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2010-02-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1901.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_mediawiki-090206.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-11743.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_mediawiki-5987.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-11688.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-11802.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-21 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_61b07d71ce0e11dda7210030843d3802.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg0125...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg0130...
MLIST http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080....
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/33133
http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

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