An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 30, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jul 2, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 30, 2023
An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalRenameRequest page is vulnerable to infinite loops and denial of service attacks when a user's current username is beyond an arbitrary maximum configuration value (MaxNameChars).
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