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medium 6.8

CVE-2007-1054 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in index.php in MediaWiki 1.6.x through 1.9.2, when $wgUseAjax is enabled, al…

published 2007-02-21 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-1051

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AJAX features in index.php in MediaWiki 1.6.x through 1.9.2, when $wgUseAjax is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 encoded value of the rs parameter, which is processed by Internet Explorer.

Patch / fix

  • mediawiki Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.7.1-9

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-1054

Exploit prediction

2.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugsec.com http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • attrition.org http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-February/001367.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.