CVE-2009-0737

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the web-based installer (config/index.php) in MediaWiki 1.6 before 1.6.12, 1.12 before 1.12.4, and 1.13 before 1.13.4, when the installer is in active use, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5 (+17)

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000083.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33881
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_12_4/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_4/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_12/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33681
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0368
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000083.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33881
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_12_4/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_4/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

Get alerted when CVE-2009-0737 or the next vulnerability affects your stack