CVE-2021-44857
MEDIUMMediaWiki < 1.35.5, 1.36.x < 1.36.3, 1.37.x < 1.37.1 - Arbitrary Page Content Replacement via mcrrestore
Title source: llmDescription
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. It is possible to use action=mcrundo followed by action=mcrrestore to replace the content of any arbitrary page (that the user doesn't have edit rights for). This applies to any public wiki, or a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
Third Party Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297322
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQ
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
35.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-862
Status
published
Products (1)
mediawiki/mediawiki
< 1.35.5
Published
Dec 17, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026