CVE-2021-36129

MEDIUM

MediaWiki <1.36 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in the Translate extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Aggregategroups Action API module does not validate the parameter for aggregategroup when action=remove is set, thus allowing users with the translate-manage right to silently delete various groups' metadata.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282932

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 28.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (1)
mediawiki/mediawiki < 1.36
Published Jul 02, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026