CVE-2022-28201
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-19 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 05:48
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246Third Party Advisory
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