BIT-mediawiki-2021-44857

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    BIT-mediawiki-2021-44857

    Published: 6 Mar 2024Last Modified: 3 Apr 2025

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. It is possible to use action=mcrundo followed by action=mcrrestore to replace the content of any arbitrary page (that the user doesn't have edit rights for). This applies to any public wiki, or a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.

    References: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297322, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQ, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44857

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mediawiki

    Purl: pkg:bitnami/mediawiki

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.35.5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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