Users can impersonate import requesters if their actor IDs coincide in ImportDump
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · High · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
ImportDump is a mediawiki extension designed to automate user import requests. A user's local actor ID is stored in the database to tell who made what requests. Therefore, if a user on another wiki happens to have the same actor ID as someone on the central wiki, the user on the other wiki can act as if they're the original wiki requester. This can be abused to create new comments, edit the request, and view the request if it's marked private. This issue has been addressed in commit `5c91dfc` and all users are advised to update. Users unable to update may disable the special page outside of their global wiki. See `miraheze/mw-config@e566499` for details on that.
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-2024-47816
References
More miraheze vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-16562 Cross-Site Scripting in WikiDiscover CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2021-10196 wikiconfig API leaked private config variables set through ManageWiki CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2025-33333 DiscordNotifications allows DOS, SSRF, and possible RCE through requests to user-controlled URLs CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2025-23966 ManageWiki has SQL injection vulnerability in NamespaceMigrationJob CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
- TI-2026-23374 TSPortal: Anyone can forge self-deletion requests of any user CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4
- TI-2024-32057 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Special:WikiDiscover when displaying wiki information in WikiDiscover CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
Sources
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