Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.13 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. When using the MediaWiki API to "protect" a page, a user is currently able to protect to a higher level than they currently have permissions for.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270713 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/26UJGHF7LJDOCQN6A3Z4PM7PYRKENJHE/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OMSV7B2TCFBOCICN3B4SMQP5HVRJQIT/ ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.html ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40 ↗