Information disclosure in MediaWiki - CVE-2014-9481
Published: January 27, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30419
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9481
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The Scribunto extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to obtain the rollback token and possibly other sensitive information via a crafted module, related to unstripping special page HTML.
Affected software
MediaWiki
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2014-9481
Install update from vendor's website.
MediaWiki - update to 1.24.1