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SpecialMobileHistory allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because database queries are slow.","status":"published","published":"2024-03-06T11:03:17.804Z","modified":"2025-04-03T14:40:37.652Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:28:33.072289Z"},{"id":"MGASA-2023-0204","title":"Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability","description":"Bundled PapaParse copy in VisualEditor has known ReDos (CVE-2020-36649).\n\nAn issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. When installing with a\npre-existing data directory that has weak permissions, the SQLite files\nare created with file mode 0644, i.e., world readable to local users.\nThese files include credentials data (CVE-2022-47927).\n\nAn issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. SpecialMobileHistory\nallows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because database\nqueries are slow (CVE-2023-22909).\n\nAn issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. E-Widgets does widget\nreplacement in HTML attributes, which can lead to XSS, because widget\nauthors often do not expect that their widget is executed in an HTML\nattribute context (CVE-2023-22911).\n\nAn issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10. An auto-block can\noccur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header (CVE-2023-29141).\n\nOATHAuth allows replay attacks when MediaWiki is configured without\nObjectCache; Insecure Default Configuration (T330086).\n","status":"published","published":"2023-06-28T05:21:41Z","modified":"2026-04-16T04:42:16.939948655Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:42.263076Z"}]}}