Security Advisory
CVE-2021-36125
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
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).
Published Date
July 2, 2021
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory