CVE-2006-1498

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted encoded links.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6 (+25)

References

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2006-March/000040.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19504
http://secunia.com/advisories/19508
http://secunia.com/advisories/19517
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-01.xml
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_07_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17269
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1194
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25588
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2006-March/000040.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19504

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