Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Jan 28, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2013-6455

Description

The CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1 allows remote attackers to obtain usernames via vectors related to writing the names to the DOM of a page.

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Affected products

MediaWiki/Mediawiki
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <1.19.10
MediaWiki/CentralAuthllm-fuzzy
Range: <1.19.10, <1.21.4, <1.22.1
Wikimedia Foundation/Mediawikiv5
Range: before 1.19.10

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000138.htmlnvdVendor Advisory

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