Vulnerability · Published Apr 21, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-29547
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 1.0% (higher than 63% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 36.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
The CreateRedirect extension before 2022-04-14 for MediaWiki does not properly check whether the user has permissions to edit the target page. This could lead to an unauthorised (or blocked) user being able to edit a page.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306174 x_refsource_MISC
- https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T9061 x_refsource_MISC
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/CreateRedirect/+/780567 x_refsource_MISC