PT-2013-4946 · Wikimedia · Mediawiki

Published 2013-09-13 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2013-4301

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions 1.19.x through 1.19.7 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.20.6 MediaWiki versions 1.21.x through 1.21.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a "<" (open angle bracket) character in the lang parameter to "w/load.php", which reveals the installation path in an error message.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.19.x through 1.19.7, update to version 1.19.8 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.20.6, update to version 1.20.7 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.21.x through 1.21.1, update to version 1.21.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4301

MGASA-2013-0276

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 17

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46332 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4301 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4301 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54715 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0276 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0276.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4301 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4301 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19 · Note
• https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4301 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/96913 · Note
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11157 · Note