Oversight in fix for GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq may have exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-200.
Summary
CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. An oversight during the writing of the patch for CVE-2024-29897 may have exposed suppressed wiki requests to private wikis that added Special:RequestWikiQueue to the read whitelist to users without the `(read)` permission. This vulnerability is fixed in 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-29898
References
More miraheze Createwiki vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-08626 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel in CreateWiki CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2024-32056 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Special:RequestWikiQueue when displaying sitename in CreateWiki CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2024-19652 CreateWiki's wiki request suppression ignores the suppression settings set by the suppressor CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9
Sources
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