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CVE-2015-8005

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% 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-200

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.11, 1.24.x before 1.24.4, and 1.25.x before 1.25.3 uses the thumbnail ImageMagick command line argument, which allows remote attackers to obtain the installation path by reading the metadata of a PNG thumbnail file.

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/T108616
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034028
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-October/000181.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108616

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