Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 17, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2021-44857
CVE-2021-44857
Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. It is possible to use action=mcrundo followed by action=mcrrestore to replace the content of any arbitrary page (that the user doesn't have edit rights for). This applies to any public wiki, or a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.
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Affected products
3- MediaWiki/MediaWikidescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24mitrevendor-advisory
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297322mitre
- www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQmitre
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