CVE-2014-1610
mediumpriority · attend · 49EPSS 0.428 · 99 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the page parameter to includes/media/DjVu.php; (2) the w parameter (aka width field) to thumb.php, which is not properly handled by includes/media/PdfHandler_body.php; and possibly unspecified vectors in (3) includes/media/Bitmap.php and (4) includes/media/ImageHandler.php.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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exploits (3)
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- exploit/multi/http/mediawiki_thumbMediaWiki Thumb.php Remote Command Executionweaponized · metasploit
- EDB-31329MediaWiki 1.22.1 PdfHandler - Remote Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db
- EDB-31767MediaWiki - 'Thumb.php' Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
affected products (18)
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also known as (3)
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sources
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references (48)
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- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000140.htmlcnnvd
- http://osvdb.org/102630cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56695cnnvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/102631cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14361&action=diffcnnvd
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384&action=diffcnnvd
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339cnnvd
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/cnnvd
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