Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 13, 2013· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2013-4568
CVE-2013-4568
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.
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Affected products
24cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 23 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.19.8
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19:beta_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19:beta_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.21.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.21.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <1.19.9, >=1.20.0 <1.20.8, >=1.21.0 <1.21.3
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.htmlnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.htmlnvd
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/57472nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/63761nvd
- bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cginvd
- bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cginvd
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