Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-18611
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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"
}
],
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"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:*:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*",
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},
{
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}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
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}
],
"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"
}