CVE-2024-29897

CreateWiki Leak of suppressed wiki requests outside of `CreateWikiGlobalWiki`

MEDIUM
4.9
CVSS Score
Published: March 28, 2024 at 01:40 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:23 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCreateWiki

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Severity
MEDIUM4.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. It is possible for users with (delete) or (suppressrevision) on any wiki in the farm to access suppressed wiki requests by going to the request's entry on Special:RequestWikiQueue on the wiki where they have these rights. The same vulnerability was present briefly on the REST API before being quickly corrected in commit `6bc0685`. To our knowledge, the vulnerable commits of the REST API are not running in production anywhere. This vulnerability is fixed in 23415c17ffb4832667c06abcf1eadadefd4c8937.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 23415c17ffb4832667c06abcf1eadadefd4c8937

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

4.9MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-200

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