CVE-2005-3165: Mediawiki

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) <math> tags or (2) Extension or <nowiki> sections that "bypass HTML style attribute restrictions" that are intended to protect against XSS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer clients.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.5 only; version 1.4.6 only; version 1.4.7 only; …

Published 2005-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.