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CVE-2005-3166

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in "edit submission handling" for MediaWiki 1.4.x before 1.4.10 and 1.3.x before 1.3.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (corruption of the previous submission) via a crafted URL.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5 (+24)

References

• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=358163
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/19956
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=358163
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/19956

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