Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0460

Title: Mediawiki Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0460.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jan 25, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

15.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0460: 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.

Impacted Vendors

microsoft 1

mediawiki 2

Reference Links

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-January/000068.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28629 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 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-January/000068.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28629 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0460 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 25, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.