bluespice/wiki container: Insecure default configuration of service token authentication allows privilege escalation to sysop
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Summary
The bluespice/wiki container image, a Docker distribution of the BlueSpice wiki platform, is affected by this flaw. An attacker with read access to the wiki, including anonymous users on publicly readable wikis, could obtain a token and gain administrator (sysop) privileges.
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Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default vulnerability in Hallo Welt! GmbH BlueSpice (container image bluespice/wiki) allows privilege escalation. The default value of $mwsgTokenAuthenticatorServiceCIDR in the container's LocalSettings.php was intended to restrict internal service authentication to the container network, but evaluated to an empty string when the environment variable WIKI_SERVICE_TOKEN_AUTH_ALLOWED was not set. An empty value disables the IP restriction in the token authenticator component (mwstake/mediawiki-component-token-authenticator). As a result, any user with read access to the wiki (anonymous users on publicly readable wikis) could obtain an application token from the REST API and use it to get a session with sysop privileges as the internal service user. This issue affects BlueSpice: from 5.2.3 before 5.2.7, and the 5.2.7 container images published before 2026-10-19 15:37 UTC.
Affected versions
- bluespice/wiki
From 5.2.3 · fixed in 5.2.7