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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-18611

An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension through 1.34 for MediaWiki. Certain sensitive information within oversighted edit summaries made available via the MediaWiki API was potentially visible to users with various levels of access to this extension. Said users should not have been able to view these oversighted edit summaries via the MediaWiki API.

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CVE-2019-18611
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1 Nov 2026, 04:29 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-18611

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Oct 2019, 19:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension through 1.34 for MediaWiki. Certain sensitive information within oversighted edit summaries made available via the MediaWiki API was potentially visible to users with various levels of access to this extension. Said users should not have been able to view these oversighted edit summaries via the MediaWiki API.

osv:CVE-2019-18611
Complete source record
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  "id": "9fcaf508764175cb5d2ba20ceb5160088bb28d8e5355fc2ea622d4a70f3ef83a",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-18611",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-18611",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension through 1.34 for MediaWiki. Certain sensitive information within oversighted edit summaries made available via the MediaWiki API was potentially visible to users with various levels of access to this extension. Said users should not have been able to view these oversighted edit summaries via the MediaWiki API.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-18611",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-18611",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-18611"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-checkuser",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "8f9478d9b9de3e53601128bde9e7d5bed51652ac"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:*:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.34"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "REL1_34",
            "REL1_30",
            "REL1_29",
            "REL1_28",
            "REL1_22",
            "REL1_21",
            "REL1_20",
            "REL1_19"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-18611.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:19.052346660Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ie0aa0df2b3f03d8b910733f1b5e600a0dc978765",
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234862"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-18611",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429924,
  "published_at": "2019-10-29T19:15:19.843+00:00"
}