{"id":"CVE-2015-6736","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-6736","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:47:24.459Z","title":"The Quiz extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via regex metacharacters in a regular expression.","description":"The Quiz extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via regex metacharacters in a regular expression.","published":"2015-09-01T14:59:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:31:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-17"],"affected":["quiz project/quiz"],"epss":{"score":0.0266,"percentile":0.85592,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.66%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76362","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6736","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}