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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-31552

An issue was discovered in the AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.2. It incorrectly executed certain rules related to blocking accounts after account creation. Such rules would allow for user accounts to be created while blocking only the IP address used to create an account (and not the user account itself). Such rules could also be used by a nefarious, unprivileged user to catalog and enumerate any number of IP addresses related to these account creations.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:35 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-31552

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Apr 2021, 03:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in the AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.2. It incorrectly executed certain rules related to blocking accounts after account creation. Such rules would allow for user accounts to be created while blocking only the IP address used to create an account (and not the user account itself). Such rules could also be used by a nefarious, unprivileged user to catalog and enumerate any number of IP addresses related to these account creations.

osv:CVE-2021-31552
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31552",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.2. It incorrectly executed certain rules related to blocking accounts after account creation. Such rules would allow for user accounts to be created while blocking only the IP address used to create an account (and not the user account itself). Such rules could also be used by a nefarious, unprivileged user to catalog and enumerate any number of IP addresses related to these account creations.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-31552",
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      "aliases": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.373602361Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152394",
        "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I8bae477ad7e4d0190335363ac2decf28e4313da1"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430256,
  "published_at": "2021-04-22T03:15:08.163+00:00"
}