CVE-2007-0177

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX module in MediaWiki before 1.6.9, 1.7 before 1.7.2, 1.8 before 1.8.3, and 1.9 before 1.9.0rc2, when wgUseAjax is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5 (+8)

References

http://osvdb.org/31525
http://secunia.com/advisories/23647
http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=652721
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_9/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_8_3/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_9_0RC2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21956
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0096
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31359

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