CVE-2015-8004

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Published 2015-11-09 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.11, 1.24.x before 1.24.4, and 1.25.x before 1.25.3 does not properly restrict access to revisions, which allows remote authenticated users with the viewsuppressed user right to remove revision suppressions via a crafted revisiondelete action, which returns a valid a change form.

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.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.25.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.25.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.25.5-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.25.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.25.5-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.23.10"}
mediawikimediawiki1.24.0
mediawikimediawiki1.24.1
mediawikimediawiki1.24.2
mediawikimediawiki1.24.3
mediawikimediawiki1.25.0
mediawikimediawiki1.25.1
mediawikimediawiki1.25.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.