CVE-2007-1055

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in index.php in MediaWiki 1.9.x before 1.9.0rc2, and 1.8.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the rs parameter. NOTE: this issue might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0177.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.8.2; 1.9.0-rc1

References

http://osvdb.org/37343
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2274
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_9_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460596/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32586
http://osvdb.org/37343
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2274
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_9_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460596/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32586

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