# 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.

- **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:** 28 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 3 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq

## 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 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## 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.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-29897 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29897 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-2024-29897/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29897/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29897
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29897
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29897

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29897/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.