An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.1. Missing users (accounts that don't exist) and hidden users (accounts that have been explicitly hidden due to being abusive, or similar) that the viewer cannot see are handled differently, exposing sensitive information about the hidden status to unprivileged viewers. This exists on various code paths.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-12-18T07:40:38

Updated: 2020-12-27T03:06:16

Reserved: 2020-12-16T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-35480

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-18T08:15:15.437

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:21:55.303


Link: CVE-2020-35480

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