{"id":"CVE-2015-8625","aliases":["EUVD-2015-8502","GHSA-55w7-r459-9wqm","MGASA-2015-0486","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8625"],"status":"published","title":"MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do...","description":"MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do not properly sanitize parameters when calling the cURL library, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an @ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array parameters.","severity":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-07","score":0.01805,"percentile":0.78687,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-200"],"published":"2015-12-24T11:08:20Z","modified":"2026-06-17T00:34:52Z","affected":[{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","package":"mediawiki","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.23.12-1.mga5"}]}],"bundled":7}],"products":[{"vendor":"mediawiki","product":"mediawiki"}],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred","Patch","Release Notes","Vendor Advisory","web"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred","Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118032","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Patch","Third Party Advisory","report"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred","Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8625"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-55w7-r459-9wqm"},{"url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0486.html","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17379","tags":["report"]},{"url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8625","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8625","tags":["report"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2015-8625","description":"MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do not properly sanitize parameters when calling the cURL library, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an @ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array 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@ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array parameters.","status":"published","published":"2022-05-17T02:53:37Z","modified":"2023-01-27T05:06:41Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-200"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:42:57.782632Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2015-8625","description":"MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do not properly sanitize parameters when calling the cURL library, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an @ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array parameters.","status":"published","published":"2017-03-23T20:59:00.563Z","modified":"2026-06-17T00:34:52.6Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"primary"},{"version":"2.0","score":5,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-200"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:03:17.368799Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8625","description":"MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do not properly sanitize parameters when calling the cURL library, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an @ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array parameters.","status":"withdrawn","published":"2017-03-23T20:59:00Z","modified":"2025-07-16T07:33:35.094442Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:54:10.737723Z"},{"id":"MGASA-2015-0486","title":"Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities","description":"Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities:\n\nIn MediaWiki before 1.23.12, an XSS vector exists when MediaWiki is\nconfigured with a non-standard configuration, from wikitext when\n$wgArticlePath='$1' (CVE-2015-8622).\n\nIn MediaWiki before 1.23.12, tokens were being compared as strings, which\ncould allow a timing attack (CVE-2015-8623, CVE-2015-8624).\n\nIn MediaWiki before 1.23.12, parameters passed to the curl library were not\nsanitized, which could cause curl to upload files from the webserver to an\nattacker when POST variable starts with '@' (CVE-2015-8625).\n\nIn MediaWiki before 1.23.12, the password reset token could be shorter than\nthe minimum required password length (CVE-2015-8626).\n\nIn MediaWiki before 1.23.12, blocking IP addresses with zero-padded octets\nresulted in a failure to block the IP address (CVE-2015-8627).\n\nIn MediaWiki before 1.23.12, a combination of Special:MyPage redirects and\npagecounts allows an external site to know the wikipedia login of an user\n(CVE-2015-8628).\n","status":"published","published":"2015-12-24T11:08:20Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:25:46.182772267Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:39.792687Z"}]}}