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FreeBSD: VID-0a50bb48-625f-11ec-a1fb-080027cb2f6f (CVE-2021-44857): mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 21, 2021
Added
Nov 4, 2022
Modified
Jun 15, 2026

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.

Solutions

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