CVE-2005-4501

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded "internal placeholder string", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet Explorer.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.5.3; 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+38)

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18219
http://secunia.com/advisories/18717
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16032
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3059
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23882
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18219
http://secunia.com/advisories/18717
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16032

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