CVE-2005-3167

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.4.11 does not properly remove certain CSS inputs (HTML inline style attributes) that are processed as active content by Internet Explorer, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7 (+9)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17074
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=361505
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_27_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15024
http://secunia.com/advisories/17074
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=361505
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_27_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15024

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