CVE-2013-2114

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-11-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the chunk upload API in MediaWiki 1.19 through 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.19, 1.19-beta_1, 1.19-beta_2, 1.19.0, 1.19.1, 1.19.2 (+9)

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-May/000131.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55433
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/24/3
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48306
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-May/000131.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55433
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/24/3
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48306

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