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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-42049

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:26 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-42049

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Sept 2022, 03:15 UTC

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
{
  "id": "3954628736a0ffa2c33459575b750dc17dac3905a5a1f1a8c8eb31971377a3ff",
  "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",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-42049",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-mediawiki-2021-42049",
        "CVE-2021-42049"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "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": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f65f9d6971578b301ef9fc915a729e6a13266a5e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.36.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.36.2",
            "1.36.1",
            "1.36.0",
            "1.36.0-rc.0",
            "test-hashar-for-ci",
            "1.6.0",
            "1.5.0beta4",
            "1.5.0beta3",
            "1.5.0beta2",
            "1.5.0beta1",
            "1.5.0alpha2",
            "1.5.0alpha1",
            "1.3.0beta1",
            "1.1.0"
          ],
          "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"
}