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FreeBSD: VID-0A50BB48-625F-11EC-A1FB-080027CB2F6F (CVE-2021-44854): mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-0A50BB48-625F-11EC-A1FB-080027CB2F6F (CVE-2021-44854): mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/01/2021
Created
11/08/2022
Added
11/04/2022
Modified
01/05/2023

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-0A50BB48-625F-11EC-A1FB-080027CB2F6F:

Mediawiki reports:

(T292763. CVE-2021-44854) REST API incorrectly publicly caches

autocomplete search results from private wikis.

(T271037, CVE-2021-44856) Title blocked in AbuseFilter can be created via

Special:ChangeContentModel.

(T297322, CVE-2021-44857) Unauthorized users can use action=mcrundo to

replace the content of arbitrary pages.

(T297322, CVE-2021-44858) Unauthorized users can view contents of private

wikis using various actions.

(T297574, CVE-2021-45038) Unauthorized users can access private wiki

contents using rollback action

(T293589, CVE-2021-44855) Blind Stored XSS in VisualEditor media dialog.

(T294686) Special:Nuke doesn't actually delete pages.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki135
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki136
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mediawiki137

References

  • CVE-2021-44854

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