# CVE-2021-36132: An issue was discovered in the FileImporter extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-07-02 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280590
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I8ff2a67abd2c118a3469e4410eac2a451bfa76c3

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