CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-0537
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-02-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in (1) languages/Language.php and (2) includes/StubObject.php in MediaWiki 1.8.0 and other versions before 1.16.2, when running on Windows and possibly Novell Netware, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local PHP files via vectors related to a crafted language file and the Language::factory function.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.8.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.8.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.8.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.8.3
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.8.4
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.8.5
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.9.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.9.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.9.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.9.3
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.9.4
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.9.5
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.9.6
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.10.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.10.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.10.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.10.3
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.10.4
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.11
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.11.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.11.0rc1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.11.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.11.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.11 development
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.12.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.12.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.12.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.12.3
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.12.4
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.13.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.13.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.13.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.13.3
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.13.4
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.14.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.14.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.15.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.15.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.15.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.15.3
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.16.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.16.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.2.patch.gz Patch
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-February/000095.html Patch
- http://osvdb.org/70798 osvdb.org
- http://osvdb.org/70799 osvdb.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/01/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0273 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27094 bugzilla.wikimedia.org
- http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.2.patch.gz Patch
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-February/000095.html Patch
- http://osvdb.org/70798 osvdb.org
- http://osvdb.org/70799 osvdb.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/01/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0273 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27094 bugzilla.wikimedia.org