CVE-2009-4589

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Special:Block implementation in the getContribsLink function in SpecialBlockip.php in MediaWiki 1.14.0 and 1.15.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the ip parameter.

Affected products

mediawiki Mediawik: i1.15.0
Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.14.0

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-July/000087.html
http://osvdb.org/55824
http://secunia.com/advisories/35818
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35662
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1882
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19693
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51687
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-July/000087.html
http://osvdb.org/55824
http://secunia.com/advisories/35818
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35662
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1882

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