# CVE-2024-29883: CreateWiki's wiki request suppression ignores the suppression settings set by the suppressor

> CreateWiki extension fails to enforce suppression settings, exposing restricted wiki request information to unauthorized users.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8wjf-mxjg-j8p9

## What is CVE-2024-29883?

CVE-2024-29883 is a medium-severity vulnerability in miraheze CreateWiki, published on 26 Mar 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. Suppression of wiki requests does not work as intended, and always restricts visibility to those with the `(createwiki)` user right regardless of the settings one sets on a given wiki request. This may expose information to users who are not supposed to be able to access it.

Weakness: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-29883?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Miraheze Createwiki.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-29883?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-29883 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-29883 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29883 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in miraheze CreateWiki

- [CVE-2024-47781](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47781/): Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Special:RequestWikiQueue when displaying sitename in CreateWiki (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2022-24813](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24813/): Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel in CreateWiki (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-29898](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29898/): Oversight in fix for GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq may have exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis (medium 4.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-29883 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-29883 is a medium-severity vulnerability in miraheze CreateWiki, published on 26 Mar 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29883 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: miraheze CreateWiki. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29883/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29883/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29883
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29883
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29883

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29883/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.