Denial of Service Vulnerability in MediaWiki Wikitext Parser

CVE-2012-4885 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The wikitext parser in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via certain input, as demonstrated by the padleft function.

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