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mediawiki — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3165

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) tags or (2) Extension or sections that "bypass HTML style attribute restrictions" that are intended to protect against XSS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer clients.

Products
mediawiki
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1.4.9
CVEs
CVE-2005-3165
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 20:43 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3165

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Oct 2005, 10:02 UTC

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) tags or (2) Extension or sections that "bypass HTML style attribute restrictions" that are intended to protect against XSS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer clients.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3165

mediawiki

Fixed versions: 1.4.9

mediawiki

Fixed versions: 1.4.9

mediawiki

Fixed versions: 1.4.9

Complete source record
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