CVE-2021-36126
Published: 02 July 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-36126 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 43.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-22758
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in the AbuseFilter extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. If the MediaWiki:Abusefilter-blocker message is invalid within the content language, the filter user falls back to the English version, but that English version could also be invalid on…
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a wiki. This would result in a fatal error, and potentially fail to block or restrict a potentially nefarious user.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.