CVE-2025-11175: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement ('Expression Language Injection') vulnerability in The Wikimedia…

PriorityP350high8.8CVSS 4.0

AVNACLATNPRNUINVCHVILVANSCLSILSANEXCRXIRXARXMAVXMACXMATXMPRXMUIXMVCXMVIXMVAXMSCXMSIXMSAXSXAUXRXVXREXUX

EPSS

0.42%

34.5th percentile

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement ('Expression Language Injection') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - DiscussionTools Extension allows Regular Expression Exponential Blowup.This issue affects Mediawiki - DiscussionTools Extension: 1.44, 1.43.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	mediawiki	< mediawiki 1:1.43.5+dfsg-1 (forky)	mediawiki 1:1.43.5+dfsg-1 (forky)
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.43.6+dfsg-1~deb13u1	1:1.43.6+dfsg-1~deb13u1
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.43.5+dfsg-1	1:1.43.5+dfsg-1
the_wikimedia_foundation	mediawiki_discussiontools_extension	—	—
the_wikimedia_foundation	mediawiki_discussiontools_extension	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv4.08.8HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

osv8.8HIGH

vendor_debian8.8LOW

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