# CVE-2022-28201: An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-09-19 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571
- https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246

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