CVE-2015-2936: Mediawiki

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MediaWiki 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using PBKDF2 for password hashing, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: version 1.24.0 only; version 1.24.1 only

Published 2015-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.