oss-security - Re: CVE request: XSS in mediawiki 1.13.1 and 1.12.0

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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:44:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: XSS in mediawiki 1.13.1 and 1.12.0

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Name: CVE-2008-4408
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4408
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20081002 CVE request: XSS in mediawiki 1.13.1 and 1.12.0
Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/3
Reference: CONFIRM:http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.1, 1.12.0,
and possibly other versions before 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to
inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the useskin parameter to an
unspecified component.

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