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CVE-2024-29898: Oversight in fix for GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq may have exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. An oversight during the writing of the patch for CVE-2024-29897 may have exposed suppressed wiki requests to private wikis that added Special:RequestWikiQueue to the read whitelist to users without the `(read)` permission. This vulnerability is fixed in 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c.

Affected products

• miraheze CreateWiki: before 2024-03-27 — fixed in 2024-03-27

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: miraheze CreateWiki 2024-03-27. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/commit/8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c
• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq
• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-5rcv-cf88-gv8v
• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/commit/8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c
• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq
• https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-5rcv-cf88-gv8v

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