Bug 620225 (CVE-2010-2788)

Summary: CVE-2010-2788 MediaWiki (< v1.15.5, v1.16.0): XSS in profileinfo.php
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-01 16:20:25 UTC
MediaWiki upstream has released:
  [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-July/000092.html

v1.16.0 and v.1.15.5 versions of MediaWiki, addressing the following XSS flaw (from [1]):

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in
profileinfo.php. The vulnerability is only exposed when the script is
explicitly enabled in LocalSettings.php, with $wgEnableProfileInfo = true.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-01 16:21:40 UTC
This issue affects the versions of the mediawiki package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12 and 13.

Please fix.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-01 16:23:37 UTC
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 620226]