CVE-2021-44856
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-26 00:00
Modified
2025-04-14 15:49
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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. A title blocked by AbuseFilter can be created via Special:ChangeContentModel due to the mishandling of the EditFilterMergedContent hook return value.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271037Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271037Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
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