CVE-2024-29897 CreateWiki Leak of suppressed wiki requests outside of `CreateWikiGlobalWiki`
Users with delete or suppress rights can view suppressed wiki requests, leaking sensitive information.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-29897?
CVE-2024-29897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in miraheze CreateWiki, published on 28 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. It is possible for users with (delete) or (suppressrevision) on any wiki in the farm to access suppressed wiki requests by going to the request's entry on Special:RequestWikiQueue on the wiki where they have these rights. The same vulnerability was present briefly on the REST API before being quickly corrected in commit `6bc0685`. To our knowledge, the vulnerable commits of the REST API are not running in production anywhere. This vulnerability is fixed in 23415c17ffb4832667c06abcf1eadadefd4c8937.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-29897?
How do I fix CVE-2024-29897?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-29897 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-29897 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29897 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq.