CVE-2021-44857
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-44857
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-44857.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-44857
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2021-12-17T04:15:39.137Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-10T23:51:04.615541Z
- Severity
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- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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. It is possible to use action=mcrundo followed by action=mcrrestore to replace the content of any arbitrary page (that the user doesn't have edit rights for). This applies to any public wiki, or a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroducedFixedIntroducedFixed
- Database specific
{ "versions": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "1.35.5" }, { "introduced": "1.36.0" }, { "fixed": "1.36.3" }, { "introduced": "1.37.0" }, { "fixed": "1.37.1" } ] }