CVE-2022-28201 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00067.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Mediawiki	Mediawiki

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-3117-1	mediawiki security update
Debian DSA	DSA-5246-1	mediawiki security update
EUVD	EUVD-2022-32655	An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00032}`	epss `{'score': 0.00034}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-19T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T05:48:37.479Z

Reserved: 2022-03-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-28201

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-19T21:15:09.447

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:56:56.607

Link: CVE-2022-28201

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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