Improper Preservation of Permissions Affecting mediawiki/core package, versions <1.39.12>=1.42.0-rc.0, <1.42.6>=1.43.0-rc.0, <1.43.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MEDIAWIKICORE-10350123
  • published13 Jun 2025
  • disclosed10 Apr 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-32696  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-281  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mediawiki/core to version 1.39.12, 1.42.6, 1.43.1 or higher.

Overview

mediawiki/core is a Free software wiki application developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others.

Note: This package is not maintained on Packagist anymore, but newer releases exist.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Preservation of Permissions due to improper handling in the RevertAction.Php and ApiFileRevert.Php files. An attacker can manipulate permissions and revert files they normally would not have access to by exploiting these flaws.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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