CVE-2008-0460: Mediawiki

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 14.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in api.php in (1) MediaWiki 1.11 through 1.11.0rc1, 1.10 through 1.10.2, 1.9 through 1.9.4, and 1.8; and (2) the BotQuery extension for MediaWiki 1.7 and earlier; when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: version 1.7.0 only; version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only; version 1.8.4 only; …
• Mediawiki Mediawiki Botquery Ext: any version
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: any version

Published 2008-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.