Bug 620225 (CVE-2010-2788) - CVE-2010-2788 MediaWiki (< v1.15.5, v1.16.0): XSS in profileinfo.php
Summary: CVE-2010-2788 MediaWiki (< v1.15.5, v1.16.0): XSS in profileinfo.php
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-2788
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 620226
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-01 16:20 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-10-19 09:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 09:12:41 UTC
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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]
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