CVE-2008-5250
LOW · CVSS 3.5EPSS 1.1%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 1.1% (65th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5227)
- Published
- December 19, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5227 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
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33133(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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