CVE-2015-8004

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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-264

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.11, 1.24.x before 1.24.4, and 1.25.x before 1.25.3 does not properly restrict access to revisions, which allows remote authenticated users with the viewsuppressed user right to remove revision suppressions via a crafted revisiondelete action, which returns a valid a change form.

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/T95589
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034028
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-October/000181.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95589

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