Security readout for executives and security teams
This issue let a remote user infer whether an IP address was autoblocked in MediaWiki by observing text on the Special:Contributions page. The disclosed impact is information exposure, not account takeover or code execution. Sources do not indicate active exploitation. Exposure is most likely on legacy MediaWiki installations older than 1.22.0, especially public wikis where anonymous remote users can access Special:Contributions pages. Treat as low urgency unless the organization still runs very old public MediaWiki. The risk is privacy and reconnaissance, not direct system compromise, but unsupported wiki software may carry more serious unpatched issues. Mitigation focus: Identify all MediaWiki instances and their exact versions.; Upgrade unsupported or pre-1.22.0 MediaWiki deployments.; Review Wikimedia security-release guidance for relevant maintained branches..
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/dc2966bd05b69321300c63fd0bd78e7c78ecea6eCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48457CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20150810 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.25.2, 1.24.3, 1.23.10CVE reference · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
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