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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

MediaWiki Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8625)

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do not properly sanitize parameters when calling the cURL library, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an @ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array parameters.

Remediation

References

CVE-2015-8625

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2015-8625 CWE-200 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 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

Tags

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