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DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1579

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1579 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

The checkCss function in includes/Sanitizer.php in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly validate Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information by using the \2f\2a and \2a\2f hex strings to surround CSS comments.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12mediawiki0, 0, 0
Debian:14mediawiki0, 0, 0
Debian:11mediawiki0, 0, 0
Debian:13mediawiki0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Apr 27, 2011 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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