Vulnerability · Published Sep 27, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-26121
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 70% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
An issue was discovered in the FileImporter extension for MediaWiki before 1.34.4. An attacker can import a file even when the target page is protected against "page creation" and the attacker should not be able to create it. This occurs because of a mishandled distinction between an upload restriction and a create restriction. An attacker cannot leverage this to overwrite anything, but can leverage this to force a wiki to have a page with a disallowed title.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=454609892#File:Wiki.png x_refsource_MISC
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262628 x_refsource_MISC
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ib852a96afc4dca10516d0510e69c10f9892b351b x_refsource_MISC
- FEDORA-2020-a4802c53d9 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA