CVE-2005-4501
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-12-22 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 23:46
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
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