CVE-2010-2787

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

api.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5 does not prevent use of public caching headers for private data, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information by retrieving documents from an HTTP proxy cache that has been used by a victim.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.15.4; 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+88)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-July/000092.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/29/4
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42019
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620224
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24565
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html

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