Vulnerability · Published Mar 28, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2024-29898Oversight in fix for GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq may have exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis

Medium 4.9

In plain English

A medium-severity information exposure in CreateWiki from miraheze. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.9Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 47.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. An oversight during the writing of the patch for CVE-2024-29897 may have exposed suppressed wiki requests to private wikis that added Special:RequestWikiQueue to the read whitelist to users without the `(read)` permission. This vulnerability is fixed in 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
miraheze	CreateWiki	23415c17ffb4832667c06abcf1eadadefd4c8937

Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-5rcv-cf88-gv8v x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/commit/8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c x_refsource_MISC