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Possible to circumvent title-blacklist

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 15, 2024

Package

composer mediawiki/core (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 1.31.0, < 1.31.6
>= 1.32.0, < 1.32.6
>= 1.33.0, < 1.33.2
>= 1.33.99, < 1.34.0

Patched versions

1.31.6
1.32.6
1.33.2
1.34.0

Description

MediaWiki through 1.33.1 allows attackers to bypass the Title_blacklist protection mechanism by starting with an arbitrary title, establishing a non-resolvable redirect for the associated page, and using redirect=1 in the action API when editing that page.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 11, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed May 15, 2024
Last updated May 15, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.424%
(75th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-19709

GHSA ID

GHSA-pjv5-vv93-p648

Source code

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