CVE-2013-7444
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
The Special:Contributions page in MediaWiki before 1.22.0 allows remote attackers to determine if an IP is autoblocked via the "Change block" text.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:1.25.5-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:1.25.5-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:1.25.5-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:1.25.5-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:1.25.5-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mediawiki | mediawiki | {"endIncluding":"1.22.0"} | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/dc2966bd05b69321300c63fd0bd78e7c78ecea6e
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48457
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7444
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.