Name: CVE-2015-8625: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-8625, CWE-200, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.01805

MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do not properly sanitize parameters when calling the cURL library, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an @ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array parameters.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Freebsd	—	Upgrade mediawiki126Upgrade mediawiki125Upgrade mediawiki123Upgrade mediawiki124	Dec 10, 2025	Dec 24, 2015
Mediawiki	—	Upgrade MediaWiki to the latest version	Aug 24, 2017	Mar 23, 2017

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CVSS Details

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