CVE-2008-0460 (GCVE-0-2008-0460)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-01-25 15:00
Modified
2024-08-07 07:46
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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