CVE-2005-4031 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-4031?

CVE-2005-4031 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki, published on 6 Dec 2005. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Eval injection vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.5.x before 1.5.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via the "user language option," which is used as part of a dynamic class name that is processed using the eval function.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4031?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mediawiki Mediawiki.

How do I fix CVE-2005-4031?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4031 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2005-4031 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4031 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CVE-2005-4067, GHSA-7g9f-9vq9-79j8.