CVE-2008-4408: Mediawiki

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.1, 1.12.0, and possibly other versions before 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the useskin parameter to an unspecified component.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: version 1.12.0 only; version 1.13.1 only

Published 2008-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.