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CVE-2015-6736

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The Quiz extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via regex metacharacters in a regular expression.

Affected products

• Quiz Project Quiz: all versions

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

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