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CVE-2015-8625

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do not properly sanitize parameters when calling the cURL library, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an @ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array parameters.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.23.11; 1.24.0, 1.24.1, 1.24.2, 1.24.3, 1.24.4, 1.25.0 (+4)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118032
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118032

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