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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200604-01">
+ <title>MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ MediaWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow
+ arbitrary JavaScript code execution.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mediawiki</product>
+ <announced>2006-04-04</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2006-04-04</revised>
+ <bug>127971</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-apps/mediawiki" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.4.15</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.15</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big
+ projects like Wikipedia.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ MediaWiki fails to decode certain encoded URLs correctly.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="low">
+ <p>
+ By supplying specially crafted links, a remote attacker could
+ exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious HTML or JavaScript code
+ that will be executed in a user's browser session in the context of the
+ vulnerable site.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All MediaWiki users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-apps/mediawiki-1.4.15"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1498">CVE-2006-1498</uri>
+ <uri link="https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=404869">MediaWiki 1.4.15 Release Notes</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-04-02T08:58:31Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-04-02T08:58:55Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-04-02T17:15:00Z">
+ DerCorny
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>