Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-4589

Title: Mediawiki Mediawiki Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-4589.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jan 07, 2010

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-4589: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Special:Block implementation in the getContribsLink function in SpecialBlockip.php in MediaWiki 1.14.0 and 1.15.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the ip parameter.

Impacted Vendors

mediawiki 2

Reference Links

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-July/000087.html http://osvdb.org/55824 http://secunia.com/advisories/35818 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35662 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1882 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19693 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51687 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-July/000087.html http://osvdb.org/55824 http://secunia.com/advisories/35818 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35662 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1882 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19693 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51687

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-2009-4589 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 07, 2010 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.