# CVE-2014-1610: MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows rem

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module
- Published: 2014-01-30 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the page parameter to includes/media/DjVu.php; (2) the w parameter (aka width field) to thumb.php, which is not properly handled by includes/media/PdfHandler_body.php; and possibly unspecified vectors in (3) includes/media/Bitmap.php and (4) includes/media/ImageHandler.php.

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## References

- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31329/
- http://www.checkpoint.com/threatcloud-central/articles/2014-01-28-tc-researchers-discover.html
- http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2014/cpai-26-jan.html
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57472
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110215/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000140.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029707
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65223
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127942.html
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/2/includes/media/Bitmap.php
- http://www.osvdb.org/102631
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14361&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384&action=diff
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56695
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/
- http://osvdb.org/102630
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127948.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31329
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31767
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/mediawiki_thumb.rb

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