Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU31321

Open redirect in MediaWiki - CVE-2017-0363

Published: April 13, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU31321

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0363

CWE-ID: CWE-601

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 has a flaw where Special:UserLogin?returnto=interwiki:foo will redirect to external sites.

MediaWiki
Arch Linux
Fedora
mediawiki

Install update from vendor's website.

MediaWiki - update to 1.28.1
mediawiki - update to 1.27.2-1.fc25