CVE-2007-1054

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in index.php in MediaWiki 1.6.x through 1.9.2, when $wgUseAjax is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 encoded value of the rs parameter, which is processed by Internet Explorer.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.8.2

References

http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-February/001367.html
http://osvdb.org/32078
http://secunia.com/advisories/24211
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2274
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=487921&group_id=34373
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_9_3/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460596/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0678
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32586
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-February/001367.html
http://osvdb.org/32078

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