CVE-2021-30152

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.13 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. When using the MediaWiki API to "protect" a page, a user is currently able to protect to a higher level than they currently have permissions for.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-30152

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`1.35.2-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:1.35.2-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:1.35.2-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:1.35.2-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:1.35.2-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:1.35.2-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-30152

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