CVE-2021-44854 (GCVE-0-2021-44854)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-26 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 15:55
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. The REST API publicly caches results from private wikis.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-524 - Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
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