Medium severity · published May 13, 2024
CVE-2024-34701
CreateWiki vulnerable to impersonation of wiki requester
5.9
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. It is possible for users to be considered as the requester of a specific wiki request if their local user ID on any wiki in a wiki farm matches the local ID of the requester at the wiki where the wiki request was made. This allows them to go to that request entry's on Special:RequestWikiQueue on the wiki where their local user ID matches and take any actions that the wiki requester is allowed to take from there. Commit 02e0f298f8d35155c39aa74193cb7b867432c5b8 fixes the issue. Important note about the fix: This vulnerability has been fixed by disabling access to the REST API and special pages outside of the wiki configured as the "global wiki" in `$wgCreateWikiGlobalWiki` in a user's MediaWiki settings. As a workaround, it is possible to disable the special pages outside of one's own global wiki by doing something similar to `miraheze/mw-config` commit e5664995fbb8644f9a80b450b4326194f20f9ddc that is adapted to one's own setup. As for the REST API, before the fix, there wasn't any REST endpoint that allowed one to make writes. Regardless, it is possible to also disable it outside of the global wiki by using `$wgCreateWikiDisableRESTAPI` and `$wgConf` in the configuration for one's own wiki farm..
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 51% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CR
CreateWiki · miraheze
< 02e0f298f8d35155c39aa74193cb7b867432c5b8 · source: vendor, CISA
Affected product
CR
CreateWiki
miraheze
More from CreateWiki
6.5
CVE-2024-29898
Oversight in fix for GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq may have exposed suppressed wiki requests on private wikis
6.1
CVE-2024-47781
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Special:RequestWikiQueue when displaying sitename in CreateWiki
5.3
CVE-2022-24813
CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis
4.9
CVE-2024-29897
CreateWiki Leak of suppressed wiki requests outside of `CreateWikiGlobalWiki`
4.9
CVE-2024-29883
CreateWiki's wiki request suppression ignores the suppression settings set by the suppressor