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CVE-2019-12469

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• 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: 2019-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

MediaWiki through 1.32.1 has Incorrect Access Control. Suppressed username or log in Special:EditTags are exposed. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: before 1.27.6; from 1.27.7 before 1.30.2; from 1.31.0 before 1.31.2; from 1.32.0 before 1.32.2 — fixed in 1.27.6, 1.30.2, 1.31.2, 1.32.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.27.6, 1.30.2, 1.31.2, 1.32.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092152.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222036
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/12
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4460
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092152.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222036
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/12
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4460

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