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Vulnerability details: VCID-whsr-x65a-qbfd
Vulnerability ID VCID-whsr-x65a-qbfd
Aliases CVE-2022-28201
Summary An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.0
Risk 2.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
System Score Found at
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epss 0.00037 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-28201
cvssv3.1 4.4 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28201
archlinux Unknown https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2823
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-28201
https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/07/03/a-belated-writeup-of-cve-2022-28201-in-mediawiki.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44854
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44855
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44856
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28201
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28202
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28203
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29248
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31042
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31043
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31090
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31091
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-34911
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-34912
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-41765
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-41767
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297571
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246
AVG-2823 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2823
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2022-28201 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28201
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28201
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

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high

none

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required

unchanged

changed

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low

none

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low

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.0847
EPSS Score 0.00035
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T10:32:18.151903+00:00 NVD Importer Import https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28201 37.0.0