CVE-2008-5249

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: none known
Published: 2008-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.0 through 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.13.0, 1.13.1, 1.13.2

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33133
http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33133
http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844

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