CVE-2008-0460
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 14.6%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in api.php in (1) MediaWiki 1.11 through 1.11.0rc1, 1.10 through 1.10.2, 1.9 through 1.9.4, and 1.8; and (2) the BotQuery extension for MediaWiki 1.7 and earlier; when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 14.6% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0470)
- Published
- January 25, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0470 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki botquery ext
- microsoft / internet explorer
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-January/000068.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28629(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29266
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28137
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0280
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39901
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00147.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00189.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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