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CVE-2021-42049

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• 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: 2022-09-29 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in the Translate extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. Oversighters cannot undo revisions or oversight on pages where they suppressed information (such as PII). This allows oversighters to whitewash revisions.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.36.2

References

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4d95220ef414337147235f7ebedc9b945c3348e3
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286884
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4d95220ef414337147235f7ebedc9b945c3348e3
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286884

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