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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

MediaWiki Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability (CVE-2013-6455)

Description

The CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1 allows remote attackers to obtain usernames via vectors related to writing the names to the DOM of a page.

Remediation

References

CVE-2013-6455

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2013-6455 CWE-200 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Tags

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