CVE-2021-42045

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    CVE-2021-42045

    Published: 29 Sept 2022Last Modified: 9 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in SecurePoll in the Growth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. Simple polls allow users to create alerts by changing their User-Agent HTTP header and submitting a vote.

    References: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289385, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4f04083cd00884d3b85245460774c81c7639a578

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.36.2
    1.36.1
    1.36.0
    1.36.0-rc.0

    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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