CVE-2017-8809 is a critical Reflected File Download vulnerability affecting MediaWiki versions prior to 1.27.4, 1.28.3, and 1.29.2, as well as Debian distributions of MediaWiki. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. Despite its critical severity and high EPSS score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.27.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.28.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.28.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.28.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.28.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.28.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.28.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.29.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.29.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.