CVE-2008-5249
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.0 through 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.0 through 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
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
- 1.96% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 80.1% 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
- 2008-12-19 17:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:49Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-11-26
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 809bd1fd3f4a43f034d55c4f60b41f7f380e45a14b5fd1dca55328cfbd6d4132
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-11802https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-1901http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
- secunia.com33133http://secunia.com/advisories/33133
- lists.wikimedia.org[mediawiki-announce] 20081215 MediaWiki 1.13.3, 1.12.2, 1.6.11 security updatehttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html
- www.securityfocus.com32844http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-11688https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html
- secunia.com33349http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.13.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.13.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.13.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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