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CVE-2015-8002

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The chunked upload API (ApiUpload) in MediaWiki before 1.23.11, 1.24.x before 1.24.4, and 1.25.x before 1.25.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a file upload using one byte chunks.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.23.10; 1.24.0, 1.24.1, 1.24.2, 1.24.3, 1.25.0, 1.25.1 (+1)

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034028
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-October/000181.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91205
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034028
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-October/000181.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91205

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