CVE-2005-3165

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) <math> tags or (2) Extension or <nowiki> sections that "bypass HTML style attribute restrictions" that are intended to protect against XSS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer clients.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7 (+7)

References

http://lwn.net/Articles/153906/
http://secunia.com/advisories/16932
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=352777
http://lwn.net/Articles/153906/
http://secunia.com/advisories/16932
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=352777

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