High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-36132
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:56.721378644Z",
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"references": [
"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I8ff2a67abd2c118a3469e4410eac2a451bfa76c3",
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280590"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 438717,
"published_at": "2021-07-02T13:15:07.953+00:00"
}