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CVE-2022-29906

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The admin API module in the QuizGame extension for MediaWiki through 1.37.2 (before 665e33a68f6fa1167df99c0aa18ed0157cdf9f66) omits a check for the quizadmin user.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.37.2

References

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/QuizGame/+/765651
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302199
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/QuizGame/+/765651
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302199

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