CVE-2021-35197

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In MediaWiki before 1.31.15, 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.3, and 1.36.x before 1.36.1, bots have certain unintended API access. When a bot account has a "sitewide block" applied, it is able to still "purge" pages through the MediaWiki Action API (which a "sitewide block" should have prevented).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-35197

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202107-7

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.36.1-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.35.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.35.4-1~deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.35.3-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.35.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.35.3-1

References

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