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CVE-2025-32079 (GCVE-0-2025-32079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-11 16:24 – Updated: 2025-07-07 14:17
VLAI
Title
Saving the right content to MediaWiki:GrowthMentors.json can take down the site
Summary
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments allows HTTP DoS.This issue affects Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments: from 1.39 through 1.43.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-11 16:35 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Affected: 1.39 , ≤ 1.43 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-04-10 22:02
Credits
Urbanecm_WMF
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