{"id":"BIT-mediawiki-2021-35197","details":"In MediaWiki before 1.31.15, 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.3, and 1.36.x before 1.36.1, bots have certain unintended API access. When a bot account has a \"sitewide block\" applied, it is able to still \"purge\" pages through the MediaWiki Action API (which a \"sitewide block\" should have prevented).","aliases":["CVE-2021-35197"],"modified":"2025-04-03T14:40:37.652Z","published":"2024-03-06T11:11:44.011Z","database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"severity":"High"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00003.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CJDYJQWT43GBD6GNQ4OW7JOZ6WQ6DZTN/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MDBPECBWN6LWNSWIQMVXK6PP4YFEUYHA/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNEAI2T3Y65I55ZB6UE6RMC662RZTGRX/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce%40lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YR3X4L2CPSEJVSY543AWEO65TD6APXHP/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280226"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4979"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-35197"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mediawiki","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/mediawiki"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.31.15"},{"introduced":"1.32.0"},{"fixed":"1.35.3"},{"introduced":"1.36.0"},{"fixed":"1.36.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/mediawiki/BIT-mediawiki-2021-35197.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}