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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2008-1318

Medium
5/10

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.11 before 1.11.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive "cross-site" information via the callback parameter in an API call for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formatted results.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published