CVE-2024-29898

low-risk
Published 2024-03-28

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. An oversight during the writing of the patch for CVE-2024-29897 may have exposed suppressed wiki requests to private wikis that added Special:RequestWikiQueue to the read whitelist to users without the `(read)` permission. This vulnerability is fixed in 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c.

Do I need to act?

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0.23% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
4
CVSS 4.9/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Createwiki

Affected Vendors

Miraheze

References (6)

Patch https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/commit/8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b933413...
Not Applicable https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq
Patch https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-5rcv-cf88-gv8v
Patch https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/commit/8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b933413...
Not Applicable https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq
Patch https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-5rcv-cf88-gv8v
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low-risk
Severity 20/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal