Medium
Security advisory
MediaWiki through 1.33.1 allows attackers to bypass the Title_blacklist protection mechanism by starting with an arbitrary title, establishing a non-resolvable redirect for the associated page, and using redirect=1 in the action API when editing that page.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-19709
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
MediaWiki through 1.33.1 allows attackers to bypass the Title_blacklist protection mechanism by starting with an arbitrary title, establishing a non-resolvable redirect for the associated page, and using redirect=1 in the action API when editing that page.
osv:CVE-2019-19709
Complete source record
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