# CVE-2024-29898: Oversight in fix for GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq may have exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis

- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-03-28 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- miraheze CreateWiki: version range not reported

## Description

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. An oversight during the writing of the patch for CVE-2024-29897 may have exposed suppressed wiki requests to private wikis that added Special:RequestWikiQueue to the read whitelist to users without the `(read)` permission. This vulnerability is fixed in 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on miraheze CreateWiki, 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://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-5rcv-cf88-gv8v
- https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq
- https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/commit/8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c

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