CVE-2014-1610
MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the page parameter to includes/media/DjVu.php; (2) the w parameter (aka width field) to thumb.php, which is not properly handled by includes/media/PdfHandler_body.php; and possibly unspecified vectors in (3) includes/media/Bitmap.php and (4) includes/media/ImageHandler.php.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 42.8% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-1685)
- Published
- January 30, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-1685 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127942.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127948.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000140.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/102630
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56695(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57472
- http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2014/cpai-26-jan.html
- http://www.checkpoint.com/threatcloud-central/articles/2014-01-28-tc-researchers-discover.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31329/
- http://www.osvdb.org/102631
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65223
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029707
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14361&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/(Vendor Advisory)
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/2/includes/media/Bitmap.php
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110215/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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