CVE-2016-6336

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote authenticated users with undelete permissions to bypass intended suppressrevision and deleterevision restrictions and remove the revision deletion status of arbitrary file revisions by using Special:Undelete.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.23.14; 1.26.0, 1.26.1, 1.26.2, 1.26.3, 1.26.4, 1.27.0

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132926
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132926

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