CVE-2021-44858

mediumpriority · track · 30OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.37% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

10 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. It is possible to use action=edit&undo= followed by action=mcrundo and action=mcrrestore to view private pages on a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-276USprimary

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Debian Linux LTSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:lts
Gentoo Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:gentoo:linux:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
mediawiki mediawiki< 1.35.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mediawiki mediawiki1.36.0 → 1.36.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mediawiki mediawiki1.37.0 → 1.37.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami mediawiki< 1.35.5osvUSpkg:bitnami/mediawiki
Bitnami mediawiki1.36.0 → 1.36.3osvUSpkg:bitnami/mediawiki
Bitnami mediawiki1.37.0 → 1.37.1osvUSpkg:bitnami/mediawiki

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1259MediaWiki: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2021-12-15csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in MediaWiki ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen und vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen.
BIT-mediawiki-2021-448582024-03-06vendor · osvUS
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. It is possible to use action=edit&undo= followed by action=mcrundo and action=mcrrestore to view private pages on a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-12-20modified 2026-06-17

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references (14)

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