Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 29, 2019· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2019-18611
CVE-2019-18611
Description
An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension through 1.34 for MediaWiki. Certain sensitive information within oversighted edit summaries made available via the MediaWiki API was potentially visible to users with various levels of access to this extension. Said users should not have been able to view these oversighted edit summaries via the MediaWiki API.
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Affected products
2- MediaWiki/CheckUser extension for MediaWikidescription
Patches
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References
2- gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ie0aa0df2b3f03d8b910733f1b5e600a0dc978765mitrex_refsource_MISC
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234862mitrex_refsource_MISC
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