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MediaWiki: Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation (CVE-2020-35477)

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MediaWiki: Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation (CVE-2020-35477)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/18/2020
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

MediaWiki before 1.35.1 blocks legitimate attempts to hide log entries in some situations. If one sets MediaWiki:Mainpage to Special:MyLanguage/Main Page, visits a log entry on Special:Log, and toggles the "Change visibility of selected log entries" checkbox (or a tags checkbox) next to it, there is a redirection to the main page's action=historysubmit (instead of the desired behavior in which a revision-deletion form appears).

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_35_1

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