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CVE-2010-2787
api.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5 does not prevent use of public caching headers for private data, which allows remote attackers to…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
api.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5 does not prevent use of public caching headers for private data, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information by retrieving documents from an HTTP proxy cache that has been used by a victim.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 23% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- FEDORA-2011-5495 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-5807 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100729 Re: CVE request: mediawiki (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69776 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24565 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-5848 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [mediawiki-announce] 20100728 MediaWiki security release: 1.16.0 and 1.15.5 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 42019 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-5812 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620224 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-2791 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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