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MediaWiki: Information Exposure (CVE-2018-13258)

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MediaWiki: Information Exposure (CVE-2018-13258)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/04/2018
Created
10/26/2019
Added
10/23/2019
Modified
03/07/2024

Description

Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1 misses .htaccess files in the provided tarball used to protect some directories that shouldn't be web accessible.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

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