CVE-2025-23073 (GCVE-0-2025-23073)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-14 18:45
Modified
2025-10-16 22:47
Severity ?
3.5 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
Summary
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GlobalBlocking Extension allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue briefly impacted the master branch of MediaWiki’s GlobalBlocking Extension.
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