Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-34502

Title: Mediawiki Path Traversal / LFI

Path Traversal / LFI

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-34502.

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date May 05, 2024

Modified Date Nov 04, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-34502: An issue was discovered in WikibaseLexeme in MediaWiki before 1.39.6, 1.40.x before 1.40.2, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. Loading Special:MergeLexemes will (attempt to) make an edit that merges the from-id to the to-id, even if the request was not a POST request, and even if it does not contain an edit token.

Impacted Vendors

mediawiki 1

Reference Links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseLexeme/+/1013359 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357101 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseLexeme/+/1013359 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357101

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-34502 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 04, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 05, 2024 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.