Name: CVE-2015-6736: Undefined Security Weakness
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2015-09-01T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-6736, CWE-17, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.0266

The Quiz extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via regex metacharacters in a regular expression.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Freebsd	—	Upgrade mediawiki125Upgrade mediawiki124Upgrade mediawiki123	Dec 10, 2025	Aug 14, 2015
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade www-apps/mediawiki.	Oct 30, 2017	Sep 1, 2015

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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