>> MediaWiki Language Option Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Title : MediaWiki Language Option Remote Command Execution Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2726 CVE ID : CVE-2005-4031
Rated as : High Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-12-05
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in MediaWiki, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error when processing, via an "eval()" call, a specially crafted user language option, which may be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.
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