VDB-258491 · CVE-2024-29898 · GCVE-0-2024-29898

miraheze CreateWiki Incomplete Fix CVE-2024-29897 information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in miraheze CreateWiki. This affects an unknown part of the component Incomplete Fix CVE-2024-29897. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-29898. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in miraheze CreateWiki (affected version not known). This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Incomplete Fix CVE-2024-29897. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-29898 since 03/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c is able to eliminate this problem. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Productinfo

Type

Content Management System

Vendor

miraheze

Name

CreateWiki

License

open-source

Website

Product: https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.7

VulDB Base Score: 2.7
VulDB Temp Score: 2.6
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NVD Base Score: 6.5
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CNA Base Score: 4.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c

Timelineinfo

03/21/2024 🔍
03/28/2024 +7 days 🔍
03/28/2024 +0 days 🔍
01/08/2026 +651 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: 8f8442ed5299510ea3e58416004b9334134c149c
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-29898 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-29898
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-258491

Entryinfo

Created: 03/28/2024 15:00
Updated: 01/08/2026 22:28
Changes: 03/28/2024 15:00 (63), 05/07/2024 09:47 (2), 05/07/2024 09:51 (1), 01/08/2026 22:28 (13)
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