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Debian: CVE-2021-44857: mediawiki -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-44857: mediawiki -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/17/2021
Created
11/04/2022
Added
11/04/2022
Modified
11/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mediawiki

References

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