CVE-2005-4501 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-4501 at MITRE

Description

MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded "internal placeholder string", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet Explorer.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 141119 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2006:003, published Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:52:17 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:43 2025