High
Security advisory
An information leak was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. Handling of actor ID does not necessarily use the correct database or correct wiki.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25869
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An information leak was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. Handling of actor ID does not necessarily use the correct database or correct wiki.
osv:CVE-2020-25869
Complete source record
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"id": "526bcd3392ebedacc7aad4a645013af3badbf9fd642d1125ab36eaeb74731eec",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-25869",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-25869",
"summary": "An information leak was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. Handling of actor ID does not necessarily use the correct database or correct wiki.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-25869",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
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"id": "CVE-2020-25869",
"aliases": [
"BIT-mediawiki-2020-25869",
"CVE-2020-25869"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
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"repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0fa7240e6a81be24dc0eb3c250ec2a25a2099faa"
},
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"introduced": "0fbb878ef366477535a709b0c2564bdcf4b176d1"
},
{
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}
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"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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},
{
"fixed": "1.31.10"
}
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{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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{
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}
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}
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"versions": [
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"1.31.9",
"1.34.2",
"1.34.1",
"1.31.7",
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"1.31.6",
"1.34.0-rc.1",
"1.31.5",
"1.34.0-rc.0",
"1.31.4",
"1.31.3",
"1.31.2",
"1.31.1",
"1.31.0",
"1.31.0-rc.2",
"1.31.0-rc.1",
"1.31.0-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-2020-25869.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:48.807440559Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/",
"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html",
"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html",
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260485"
],
"provider_metadata": {
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{
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"cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "33"
},
{
"last_affected": "33"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
]
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2020-25869",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 436863,
"published_at": "2020-09-27T21:15:12.937+00:00"
}