CVE detail
CVE-2005-4501 — CVE-2005-4501
Published 2005-12-22 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor mediawiki · Product mediawiki · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0144
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
71.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded "internal placeholder string", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet Explorer.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References