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CVE-2005-4501

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2006-04-05	mediawiki -- hardcoded placeholder string security bypass vulnerability

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CVE-2005-4501 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2005-4501
Phase	Assigned(20051222)

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.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
SUSE	SUSE-SR:2006:003
BID	16032
VUPEN	ADV-2005-3059
SECUNIA	18219
SECUNIA	18717
XF	mediawiki-placeholder-bypass-security(23882)