CVE-2023-22909: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. SpecialMobileHistory allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because database queries are slow.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only
• Mediawiki Mediawiki: before 1.35.9 (fixed in 1.35.9); from 1.36.0, before 1.38.5 (fixed in 1.38.5); version 1.39.0 only

Published 2023-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.