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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-36132

An issue was discovered in the FileImporter extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. For certain relaxed configurations of the $wgFileImporterRequiredRight variable, it might not validate all appropriate user rights, thus allowing a user with insufficient rights to perform operations (specifically file uploads) that they should not be allowed to perform.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:40 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-36132

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Jul 2021, 13:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in the FileImporter extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. For certain relaxed configurations of the $wgFileImporterRequiredRight variable, it might not validate all appropriate user rights, thus allowing a user with insufficient rights to perform operations (specifically file uploads) that they should not be allowed to perform.

osv:CVE-2021-36132
Complete source record
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  "id": "54ae4e60aaaed217cdcd63e5f219ecc7e3692991b4d3b2046dc4f29c4026e60c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36132",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-36132",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the FileImporter extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. For certain relaxed configurations of the $wgFileImporterRequiredRight variable, it might not validate all appropriate user rights, thus allowing a user with insufficient rights to perform operations (specifically file uploads) that they should not be allowed to perform.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-36132",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-36132",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-mediawiki-2021-36132",
        "CVE-2021-36132"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "3da22025cf4ec7c143049685d4510870a5afd137"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.36"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "REL1_36",
            "1.36.4",
            "1.36.3",
            "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-2021-36132.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:56.721378644Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I8ff2a67abd2c118a3469e4410eac2a451bfa76c3",
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280590"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-36132",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438717,
  "published_at": "2021-07-02T13:15:07.953+00:00"
}