CVE-2015-6736 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the MediaWiki Quiz extension, affecting the 'quiz' project. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by injecting regex metacharacters into a regular expression. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, though its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:quiz_project:quiz:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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