CVE-2010-2788

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 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: 2011-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in profileinfo.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5, when wgEnableProfileInfo is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filter parameter.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.15.4; 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+119)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-July/000092.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/29/4
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69952
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69984
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42024
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620225
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html

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