CVE-2021-44857
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-12-17 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 04:32
Severity ?
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. 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
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297322Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297322Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQVendor Advisory
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