Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in the Translate extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. Oversighters cannot undo revisions or oversight on pages where they suppressed information (such as PII). This allows oversighters to whitewash revisions.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-42049
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in the Translate extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. Oversighters cannot undo revisions or oversight on pages where they suppressed information (such as PII). This allows oversighters to whitewash revisions.
osv:CVE-2021-42049
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42049",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2021-42049",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in the Translate extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. Oversighters cannot undo revisions or oversight on pages where they suppressed information (such as PII). This allows oversighters to whitewash revisions.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-42049",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
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"aliases": [
"BIT-mediawiki-2021-42049",
"CVE-2021-42049"
],
"metrics": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
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"repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
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},
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}
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},
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}
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}
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"1.5.0beta1",
"1.5.0alpha2",
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"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42049.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:53.222161624Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286884",
"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4d95220ef414337147235f7ebedc9b945c3348e3"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2021-42049",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 437870,
"published_at": "2022-09-29T03:15:14.763+00:00"
}