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mediawiki — security advisory
api.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5 does not prevent use of public caching headers for private data, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information by retrieving documents from an HTTP proxy cache that has been used by a victim.
- Products
- mediawiki
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:1.15.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-2787
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
api.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5 does not prevent use of public caching headers for private data, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information by retrieving documents from an HTTP proxy cache that has been used by a victim.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2787
mediawiki
Fixed versions: 1:1.15.5-1
mediawiki
Fixed versions: 1:1.15.5-1
mediawiki
Fixed versions: 1:1.15.5-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:35.040653483Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 417756,
"published_at": "2011-04-27T00:55:01.677+00:00"
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