Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere Affecting mediawiki/core package, versions <1.39.14>=1.40.0-rc.0, <1.43.4>=1.44.0-rc.0, <1.44.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MEDIAWIKICORE-15219372
  • published5 Feb 2026
  • disclosed3 Feb 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Feb 2026

CVE-2025-61646  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-497  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mediawiki/core to version 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1 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 Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere via the recentChangesBlock() function. An attacker can disclose the identities of authors whose authorship was intended to be hidden by accessing watchlist group mode.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1