CVE-2008-4408

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.1, 1.12.0, and possibly other versions before 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the useskin parameter to an unspecified component.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.12.0, 1.13.1

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000078.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/3
http://secunia.com/advisories/32128
http://secunia.com/advisories/32131
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_12_1/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31540
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2737
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45632
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00179.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00220.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000078.html

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