CVE-2022-28204

HIGH

MediaWiki 1.37.0-1.37.1 - Denial of Service via Special:WhatLinksHere Endpoint

Title source: llm

Description

A denial-of-service issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Rendering of w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP31&namespace=1&invert=1 can take more than thirty seconds. There is a DDoS risk.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297754

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0038

EPSS Percentile 59.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (1)

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.37.0 - 1.37.2

Published Sep 19, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026