CVE-2016-6335 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mediawiki

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure8 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 49.21%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
MediawikiDebian Mediawiki
Timeline
PublishedApr 20
Latest updateApr 28

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 does not generate head items in the context of a given title, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a parse action to api.php.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/mediawiki< mediawiki 1:1.27.1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.27.1-1+3
▶NVDmediawiki/mediawiki1.23.14+6

Patches

Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗Patch: phabricator.wikimedia.org ↗Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3399-vjx8-7x5c: MediaWiki before 1↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-6335: MediaWiki before 1↗2017-04-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2016-6335: mediawiki - MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 does no...↗2016
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📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-Base-8B Technical Report↗2025-04-28
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6331 CVE-2016-6332 CVE-2016-6333 CVE-2016-6334 CVE-2016-6335 CVE-2016-6336 mediawiki: multiple flaws fixed in 1.27.1, 1.26.4 and 1.23.15 [epel-all]↗2016-08-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6331 CVE-2016-6332 CVE-2016-6333 CVE-2016-6334 CVE-2016-6335 CVE-2016-6336 mediawiki: multiple flaws fixed in 1.27.1, 1.26.4 and 1.23.15↗2016-08-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6331 CVE-2016-6332 CVE-2016-6333 CVE-2016-6334 CVE-2016-6335 CVE-2016-6336 mediawiki: multiple flaws fixed in 1.27.1, 1.26.4 and 1.23.15 [fedora-all]↗2016-08-24
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