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MediaWiki Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2008-5688 - Vulnerability Database
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MediaWiki Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2008-5688

Medium
Reference: CVE-2008-5688
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5688
Title: MediaWiki Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
Overview:

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.