CVE-2023-45362 (GCVE-0-2023-45362)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-03 00:00
Modified
2025-11-04 17:12
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in DifferenceEngine.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. diff-multi-sameuser (aka "X intermediate revisions by the same user not shown") ignores username suppression. This is an information leak.
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