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CVE-2016-6335

high

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 does not generate head items in the context of a given title, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a parse action to api.php.

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139570

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139565

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-20

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00246