CVE-2006-2611

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: yes
Published: 2006-05-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/Sanitizer.php in the variable handler in MediaWiki 1.6.x before r14349 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript via unspecified vectors, possibly involving the usage of the | (pipe) character.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.6.5_r14348; 1.6.5

References

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6055
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-May/035812.html
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-May/035814.html
http://nickj.org/MediaWiki
http://secunia.com/advisories/20189
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/Sanitizer.php?r1=14349&r2=14348&pathrev=14349
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=14349
http://www.osvdb.org/25713
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1926
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26646
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6055
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-May/035812.html

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