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CVE-2016-6335

MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 does not generate head items in the context of a given title, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a parse action to api.php.

Published

2017-04-20T17:59:00.697

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-200

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	≤ 1.23.14	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	1.26.0	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	1.26.1	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	1.26.2	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	1.26.3	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	1.26.4	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	1.27.0	Yes

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613 Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139565 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139570 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613 Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139565 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139570 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)