CVE-2014-1610
MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the page parameter to includes/media/DjVu.php; (2) the w parameter (aka width field) to thumb.php, which is not properly handled by includes/media/PdfHandler_body.php; and possibly unspecified vectors in (3) includes/media/Bitmap.php and (4) includes/media/ImageHandler.php.
- EPSS
- 43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mediawiki:mediawiki
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127942.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127948.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000140.html
- http://osvdb.org/102630
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56695