CVE-2022-28201: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. Users with the editinterface permission can trigger infinite recursion, because a bare local interwiki is mishandled for the mainpage message.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Mediawiki Mediawiki: before 1.35.6 (fixed in 1.35.6); from 1.36.0, before 1.36.4 (fixed in 1.36.4); from 1.37.0, before 1.37.2 (fixed in 1.37.2)

Published 2022-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.