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and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 generates passwords smaller than $wgMinimalPasswordLength, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack.","status":"withdrawn","published":"2017-03-23T20:59:00Z","modified":"2025-07-16T07:33:35.154979Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:54:10.737723Z"},{"id":"MGASA-2015-0486","title":"Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities","description":"Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities:\n\nIn MediaWiki before 1.23.12, an XSS vector exists when MediaWiki is\nconfigured with a non-standard configuration, from wikitext when\n$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"}]}}