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MediaWiki: Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-2022-28201)

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MediaWiki: Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-2022-28201)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/19/2022
Created
09/24/2022
Added
09/23/2022
Modified
10/11/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_35_6
  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_36_4
  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_37_2

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