CVE-2013-4568
N/A
Published: December 13, 2013 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMediaWiki
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via certain non-ASCII characters in CSS, as demonstrated using variations of "expression" containing (1) full width characters or (2) IPA extensions, which are converted and rendered by Internet Explorer.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=13452&action=diffQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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