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mediawiki — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-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.

Products
mediawiki
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1.4.15-1
CVEs
CVE-2006-1498
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 20:13 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1498

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Mar 2006, 00:06 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1498

mediawiki

Fixed versions: 1.4.15-1

mediawiki

Fixed versions: 1.4.15-1

mediawiki

Fixed versions: 1.4.15-1

Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:25.183186146Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 410478,
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