Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting mediawiki-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-MEDIAWIKIDOC-12457073
  • published3 Sept 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2021

Introduced: 1 Jan 2021

CVE-2021-44856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 mediawiki-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki-doc package and not the mediawiki-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. A title blocked by AbuseFilter can be created via Special:ChangeContentModel due to the mishandling of the EditFilterMergedContent hook return value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1