An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalUserRights page provided search results which, for a suppressed MediaWiki user, were different than for any other user, thus easily disclosing suppressed accounts (which are supposed to be completely hidden).
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-22759 An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalUserRights page provided search results which, for a suppressed MediaWiki user, were different than for any other user, thus easily disclosing suppressed accounts (which are supposed to be completely hidden).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:47:43.853Z

Reserved: 2021-07-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-36127

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-07-02T13:15:07.817

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:13:10.260

Link: CVE-2021-36127

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