MediaWiki Vulnerability - CVE-2012-4885 - Vulnerability Database

MediaWiki Vulnerability - CVE-2012-4885

Medium

Reference: CVE-2012-4885

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4885

Title: MediaWiki Vulnerability

Overview:

The wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via certain input as demonstrated by the padleft function.