CVE-2021-44854 (GCVE-0-2021-44854)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-26 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 15:55
VLAI
Summary
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. The REST API publicly caches results from private wikis.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-14 15:53 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-524 - Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information
Show details on NVD website

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