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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-19709

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:01 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-19709

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Dec 2019, 02:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-19709",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2019-19709",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-19709",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "references": [
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        "https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4592",
        "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ie54f366986056c876eade0fcad6c41f70b8b8de8",
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239466"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436568,
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