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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

42.8% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (19)

• 31329 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• http://www.checkpoint.com/threatcloud-central/articles/2014-01-28-tc-researchers-discover.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2014/cpai-26-jan.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 57472 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110215/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• DSA-2891 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• [MediaWiki-announce] 20140128 MediaWiki Security Releases: 1.22.2, 1.21.5 and 1.19.11 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 1029707 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 65223 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• FEDORA-2014-1802 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/2/includes/media/Bitmap.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 102631 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14361&action=diff (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384&action=diff (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 56695 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 102630 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• FEDORA-2014-1745 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2014-1610](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2014-1610.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2014-1610)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 09:50 UTC.