CVE-2022-28201

medium

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

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571

https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-09-19

Updated: 2022-11-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H