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Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

CVE-2021-36127

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalUserRights page provided search results which, for a suppressed MediaWiki user, were different than for any other user, thus easily disclosing suppressed accounts (which are supposed to be completely hidden).

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-922 - Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

The software stores sensitive information without properly limiting read or write access by unauthorized actors.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published