CVE-2011-0047

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.16.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) comments, aka "CSS injection vulnerability."

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.16.1; 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+129)

References

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/2011-February/000095.html
http://osvdb.org/70770
http://secunia.com/advisories/43142
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0273
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27093
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65126
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html

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