3.5

CVE-2008-5250: mediawiki Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 3.5v2.0LowModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2008-5250
Published 19-12-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-5250 is a low (CVSS 3.5) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in mediawiki. EPSS estimates a 1.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
14/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
3.5/10
010
Low · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.07%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DSA-1901-1DTSA-186-1

Timeline

  1. 19-12-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.07%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

64%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.07% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.07%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • mediawiki< 1:1.13.3-1
Mediawiki1 product
  • mediawiki1.6.11 | 1.12.0 | 1.12.1 | 1.13.0 | 1.13.1 | 1.13.2

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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