CVE-2023-22909

MEDIUM

MediaWiki < 1.35.9, 1.36.x-1.38.x < 1.38.5, 1.39.x < 1.39.1 - Denial of Service via SpecialMobileHistory

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. SpecialMobileHistory allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because database queries are slow.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320987

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AP65YEN762IBNQPOYGUVLTQIDLM5XD2A/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3

EPSS 0.0072

EPSS Percentile 72.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published

Products (3)

fedoraproject/fedora 37

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.39.0 (3 CPE variants)

mediawiki/mediawiki < 1.35.9

Published Jan 10, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026