Mediawiki : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs, Published In 2018

Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1 misses .htaccess files in the provided tarball used to protect some directories that shouldn't be web accessible.

Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains a flaw where BotPasswords can bypass CentralAuth's account lock

Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains an information disclosure flaw in the Special:Redirect/logid

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'.

Parameters injection in the SyntaxHighlight extension of Mediawiki before 1.23.16, 1.27.3 and 1.28.2 might result in multiple vulnerabilities.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw were Spam blacklist is ineffective on encoded URLs inside file inclusion syntax's link parameter.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw, allowing a sysops to undelete pages, although the page is protected against it.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw making rawHTML mode apply to system messages.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 contains an unsafe use of temporary directory, where having LocalisationCache directory default to system tmp directory is insecure.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw allowing to evade SVG filter using default attribute values in DTD declaration.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a XSS vulnerability in SearchHighlighter::highlightText() with non-default configurations.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw where Special:Search allows redirects to any interwiki link.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 has a flaw where Special:UserLogin?returnto=interwiki:foo will redirect to external sites.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a flaw where the "Mark all pages visited" on the watchlist does not require a CSRF token.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains an information disclosure flaw, where the api.log might contain passwords in plaintext.

MediaWiki 1.18.0 allows remote attackers to obtain the installation path via vectors related to thumbnail creation.