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>> MediaWiki Hardcoded Placeholder String Security Bypass Vulnerability
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Title : MediaWiki Hardcoded Placeholder String Security Bypass Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-3059
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4501
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-22
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A vulnerability has been identified in MediaWiki, which may be exploited by attackers to inject malicious HTML code. This flaw is due to a design error where a hardcoded internal placeholder string is present, which may be exploited by attackers to bypass the security checks in inline style attributes and cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected Web site.
Affected Products
MediaWiki version 1.5.3 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to MediaWiki version 1.5.4 :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3059
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=522770
Credits
Vulnerability reported by the vendor
ChangeLog
2005-12-22 : Initial release
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