CVE-2005-3165

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2005-3165 · Published 06/10/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3165 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting mediawiki (mediawiki).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 69.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mediawiki mediawiki	`= 1.4.1= 1.4.2= 1.4.3= 1.4.5= 1.4.6= 1.4.7= 1.4.8= 1.4_beta1= 1.4_beta2= 1.4_beta3= 1.4_beta4= 1.4_beta5= 1.4_beta6`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) <math> tags or (2) Extension or <nowiki> sections that "bypass HTML style attribute restrictions" that are intended to protect against XSS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer clients.

References

lwn.net/Articles/153906 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/16932 · Patch
sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php · Patch

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mediawiki

= 1.4.1= 1.4.2= 1.4.3= 1.4.5= 1.4.6= 1.4.7= 1.4.8= 1.4_beta1= 1.4_beta2= 1.4_beta3= 1.4_beta4= 1.4_beta5= 1.4_beta6

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