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CVE-2014-9481

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Scribunto extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to obtain the rollback token and possibly other sensitive information via a crafted module, related to unstripping special page HTML.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: before 1.19.23; from 1.19.24 before 1.22.15; from 1.23.0 before 1.23.8; from 1.23.9 before 1.24.1 — fixed in 1.19.23, 1.22.15, 1.23.8, 1.24.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.19.23, 1.22.15, 1.23.8, 1.24.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/21/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/13
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73167
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/21/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/13
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73167

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