CVE-2021-36132

high

Description

An issue was discovered in the FileImporter extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. For certain relaxed configurations of the $wgFileImporterRequiredRight variable, it might not validate all appropriate user rights, thus allowing a user with insufficient rights to perform operations (specifically file uploads) that they should not be allowed to perform.

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280590

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I8ff2a67abd2c118a3469e4410eac2a451bfa76c3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-07-02

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00252