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blacklist\n(CVE-2013-4567, CVE-2013-4568).\n\nInternal review while debugging a site issue discovered that MediaWiki\nand the CentralNotice extension were incorrectly setting cache headers when\na user was autocreated, causing the user's session cookies to be cached,\nand returned to other users (CVE-2013-4572).\n","status":"published","published":"2013-12-12T22:21:01Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:23:12.207815898Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:39.121227Z"}]}}