7.5

CVE-2015-8625: mediawiki

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2015-8625
Published 23-03-2017Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-8625 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in mediawiki. EPSS estimates a 1.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.80%
0%100%
Low · +0.20 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
MGASA-2015-0486

Timeline

  1. 23-03-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 do not properly sanitize parameters when calling the cURL library, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an @ (at sign) character in unspecified POST array parameters.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.80%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

78%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.20 pp

From 1.61% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
1.80%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Mediawiki1 product
  • mediawiki≤ 1.23.11 | 1.24.0 | 1.24.1 | 1.24.2 | 1.24.3 | 1.24.4 | 1.25.0 | 1.25.1 | 1.25.2 | 1.25.3 | 1.26.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • mediawiki< 1:1.27.4-3

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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