NVD
- Id
- 8509
- Name
- CVE-2011-1579
- Description
- The checkCss function in includes/Sanitizer.php in the wikitext parser in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly validate Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information by using the 2f2a and 2a2f hex strings to surround CSS comments.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 5.8
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 5.8
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 4.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-07
- Published
- 2011-04-26
- Modified Date
- 2012-09-14
- Seq
- 2011-1579