Medium
Security advisory
In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure of suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16738
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure of suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup.
osv:CVE-2019-16738
Complete source record
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"id": "85c7c985abc4ff1dedffb9eb4e18191864b002bb7a2520f080cdc47b128cf52a",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16738",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2019-16738",
"summary": "In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure of suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-16738",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2019-16738",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2019-16738",
"GHSA-7hwr-f745-5rwq"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
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"type": "GIT",
"events": [
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},
{
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"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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"fixed": "1.31.4"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
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}
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},
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}
]
}
}
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],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16738.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:49.758531995Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7OMG3BMUHGWTAPYTK2NXM6CXF6FYLOUO/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QBAOLXETM5BOYQG6OQVHGB2LNLZUXVN6/",
"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/32",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4545",
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230402"
],
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"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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},
{
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},
{
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"cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
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"extracted_events": [
{
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},
{
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},
{
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},
{
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}
],
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}
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}
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}
},
"related_cves": [
{
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}
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 437066,
"published_at": "2019-09-26T02:15:10.833+00:00"
}