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MediaWiki: Missing Authorization (CVE-2021-30155)

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MediaWiki: Missing Authorization (CVE-2021-30155)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/09/2021
Created
04/15/2021
Added
04/15/2021
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. ContentModelChange does not check if a user has correct permissions to create and set the content model of a nonexistent page.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_31_12
  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_35_2

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