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MediaWiki: CVE-2024-40597: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 7, 2024
Added
Jun 20, 2025
Modified
May 6, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki through 1.42.1. It can expose suppressed information for log events. (The log_deleted attribute is not respected.)

Solution

mediawiki-upgrade-latest
Title
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