CVE-2008-0460

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in api.php in (1) MediaWiki 1.11 through 1.11.0rc1, 1.10 through 1.10.2, 1.9 through 1.9.4, and 1.8; and (2) the BotQuery extension for MediaWiki 1.7 and earlier; when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4 (+10)
Mediawiki Botquery Ext: all versions
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: all versions

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-January/000068.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28629
http://secunia.com/advisories/29266
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28137
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0280
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39901
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00147.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00189.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-January/000068.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28629
http://secunia.com/advisories/29266
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28137

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