CVE-2022-39194 (GCVE-0-2022-39194)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-02 04:45 – Updated: 2024-08-03 12:00
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in the MediaWiki through 1.38.2. The community configuration pages for the GrowthExperiments extension could cause a site to become unavailable due to insufficient validation when certain actions (including page moves) were performed.
Severity
4.9 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313205 | x_refsource_MISC |
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