TITLE:
MediaWiki HTML Inline Style Attributes Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17074

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17074/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
MediaWiki 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/2546/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in MediaWiki, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Some unspecified input isn't properly sanitised before being returned
in HTML inline style attributes to users running the Microsoft
Internet Explorer browser. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary
script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected
site.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.11 or 1.5.0.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download#Stable

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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