CVE-2008-5687 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in MediaWiki versions 1.11 and earlier versions before 1.13.3. Attackers could download backups of deleted images, potentially revealing sensitive information by requesting files from the images/deleted/ directory. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.