CVE-2013-4568
Description
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via certain non-ASCII characters in CSS, as demonstrated using variations of "expression" containing (1) full width characters or (2) IPA extensions, which are converted and rendered by Internet Explorer.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.20 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.20.1 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.20.2 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.20.3 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.20.4 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.20.5 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.20.6 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.20.7 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.21 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.21.1 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.21.2 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | {"endIncluding":"1.19.8"} | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19.0 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19.1 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19.2 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19.3 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19.4 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19.5 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19.6 | |
| mediawiki | mediawiki | 1.19.7 | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57472
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63761
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=13452&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55332
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4568
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.