$wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides 'newbie'

Description

Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains a flaw where contrary to the documentation, $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.6% · top 25% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• Improper imlementation of documentation / spec
• CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs

Affected products

• mediawiki · mediawiki

  • affected before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Packagistmediawiki/coreGHSA-mhfv-9h99-jwg7 (opens in a new tab)

References (7)

• [wikitech-l] 20180920 Security release: 1.27.5 / 1.29.3 / 1.30.1 / 1.31.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 1041695 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169545 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-4301 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3142 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3238 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3813 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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 Advisory GHSA-mhfv-9h99-jwg7 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 17 Sept 2024, 01:30 UTC.