Title : MediaWiki AJAX Module UTF-7 Charset Autodetection Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0678 CVE ID : CVE-2007-1054 - CVE-2007-1055
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-02-21
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in MediaWiki, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is due to an input validation errors in the AJAX module when handling a specially crafted "rs" parameters, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser (IE) in the security context of an affected Web site with the "wgUseAjax" option enabled (disabled by default).
