CVE-2024-29898 Oversight in fix for GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq may have exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis
An oversight in a previous patch exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis to unauthorized users, allowing them to read sensitive data.
- 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-2024-29898?
CVE-2024-29898 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. An oversight during the writing of the patch for CVE-2024-29897 may have exposed suppressed wiki requests to private wikis that added Special:RequestWikiQueue to the read whitelist to users without the `(read)` permission. This vulnerability is fixed in 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-29898?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Miraheze Createwiki.
How do I fix CVE-2024-29898?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-29898 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-29898 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-29898 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in miraheze CreateWiki
- CVE-2024-47781 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Special:RequestWikiQueue when displaying sitename in CreateWiki
- CVE-2022-24813 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel in CreateWiki
- CVE-2024-29883 CreateWiki's wiki request suppression ignores the suppression settings set by the suppressor