CVE-2008-5249

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.0 through 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

• CWE-79

• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33133Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33133Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32844
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html

Published

Dec 19, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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