Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246
Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571
Scores
CVSS v3
4.4
EPSS
0.0039
EPSS Percentile
30.7%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-674
Status
published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
debian/debian_linux
11.0
mediawiki/mediawiki
< 1.35.6
Published
Sep 19, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026