CVE-2006-2611: Mediawiki

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/Sanitizer.php in the variable handler in MediaWiki 1.6.x before r14349 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript via unspecified vectors, possibly involving the usage of the | (pipe) character.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: up to and including 1.6.5_r14348; version 1.6.5 only

Published 2006-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.