CVE-2016-6335

HIGH

MediaWiki <1.23.15, <1.26.4, <1.27.1 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139570
Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139565

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (7)
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.26.0
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.26.1
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.26.2
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.26.3
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.26.4
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.27.0
mediawiki/mediawiki < 1.23.14
Published Apr 20, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026