CVE-2023-45372: Mediawiki

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Wikibase extension for MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. During item merging, ItemMergeInteractor does not have an edit filter running (e.g., AbuseFilter).

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: before 1.35.12 (fixed in 1.35.12); from 1.36.0, before 1.39.5 (fixed in 1.39.5); version 1.40.0 only

Published 2023-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.