CVE-2006-1498
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted encoded links.
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted encoded links.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.79% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-03-30 00:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 17:12Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-03-29
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5d8e9d804d35b4ae45f6d984a1741dde9be1518b03b052ac0ac8d857e755b247
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-1194http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1194
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200604-01http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-01.xml
- mail.wikipedia.org[MediaWiki-announce] 20060327 MediaWiki 1.5.8, 1.4.15 released [SECURITY]http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2006-March/000040.html
- www.mediawiki.orghttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
- secunia.com19517http://secunia.com/advisories/19517
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2006:007http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_07_sr.html
- www.securityfocus.com17269http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17269
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commediawiki-unspecified-xss(25588)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25588
- secunia.com19508http://secunia.com/advisories/19508
- secunia.com19504http://secunia.com/advisories/19504
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mediawiki Fixed in 1.4.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mediawiki Fixed in 1.4.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mediawiki Fixed in 1.4.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.