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FreeBSD : mediawiki -- hardcoded placeholder string security bypass vulnerability (99015cf5-c4dd-11da-b2fb-000e0c2e438a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21482

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The mediawiki development team reports a vulnerability within the mediawiki application. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of inline style attributes. This could result in the execution of arbitrary JavaScript code in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
It appears that other browsers are not affected by this vulnerability.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7932988

http://www.nessus.org/u?33fd1dcd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21482

File Name: freebsd_pkg_99015cf5c4dd11dab2fb000e0c2e438a.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mediawiki, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/22/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-4501

BID: 16032