CVE-2008-5687: Mediawiki

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MediaWiki 1.11, and other versions before 1.13.3, does not properly protect against the download of backups of deleted images, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via requests for files in images/deleted/.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: version 1.11 only; version 1.11.1 only; version 1.11.2 only; version 1.12.0 only; version 1.12.1 only; version 1.12.2 only; …

Published 2008-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.