CVE-2008-5688
MediaWiki 1.8.1, and other versions before 1.13.3, when the wgShowExceptionDetails variable is enabled, sometimes provides the full installation path in a debugging message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified requests that trigger an uncaught exception.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2008-12-19
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Affected products
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgShowExceptionDetails
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html
