CVE-2010-1189

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

MediaWiki before 1.15.2 does not prevent wiki editors from linking to images from other web sites in wiki pages, which allows editors to obtain IP addresses and other information of wiki users by adding a link to an image on an attacker-controlled web site, aka "CSS validation issue."

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.15.1; 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+85)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-March/000088.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39022
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2022
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0685
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1001
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-March/000088.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39022
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2022

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