CVE-2011-0537: Mediawiki

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in (1) languages/Language.php and (2) includes/StubObject.php in MediaWiki 1.8.0 and other versions before 1.16.2, when running on Windows and possibly Novell Netware, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local PHP files via vectors related to a crafted language file and the Language::factory function.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only; version 1.8.4 only; version 1.8.5 only; …

Published 2011-02-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.