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  "canonical_id": "mediawiki--CVE-2009-4589",
  "system_id": "mediawiki",
  "display_name": "MediaWiki",
  "category": "cms",
  "advisory_mode": "core",
  "title": "CVE-2009-4589",
  "summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Special:Block implementation in the getContribsLink function in SpecialBlockip.php in MediaWiki 1.14.0 and 1.15.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the ip parameter.",
  "published_at": "2010-01-07T18:30:00.917",
  "updated_at": "2025-04-09T00:30:58.490",
  "severity": "medium",
  "cvss_score": 4.3,
  "exploit_status": "unknown",
  "source_confidence": "official",
  "official_source_url": "http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-July/000087.html",
  "secondary_source_urls": [
    "http://osvdb.org/55824",
    "http://secunia.com/advisories/35818",
    "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35662",
    "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1882",
    "https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19693",
    "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51687"
  ],
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  "status": "triage",
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  "repro_profile_id": "xss-generic",
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}