CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-28201
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-09-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674
Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki (< 1.35.6)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.36.0 < 1.36.4)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.37.0 < 1.37.2)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246 Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246 Third Party Advisory