CVE-2025-32964CWE-285

ManageWiki vulnerable to permission bypass when disabling extensions requiring certain permissions in Special:ManageWiki/extensions

Medium · published April 22, 2025

CVSS v3.1
4.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

ManageWiki is a MediaWiki extension allowing users to manage wikis. Prior to commit 00bebea, when enabling a conflicting extension, a restricted extension would be automatically disabled even if the user did not hold the ManageWiki-restricted right. This issue has been patched in commit 00bebea. A workaround involves ensuring that any extensions requiring specific permissions in `$wgManageWikiExtensions` also require the same permissions for managing any conflicting extensions.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00216 · 11.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
Published
2025-04-22T17:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 APR 17:15Z
    ManageWiki vulnerable to permission bypass when disabling extensions requiring certain permissions in Special:ManageWiki/extensions
    cvelistv5