CSRF in MediaWiki
CVE-2012-1578
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with the block permission for requests that (1) block a user via a request to the Block module or (2) unblock a user via a request to the Unblock module.
Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (69.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- MediaWiki — versions 1.17, 1.17.0, 1.17.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911 (vdb-entry)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 (mailing-list)
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/48504 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 (mailing-list)
- osvdb.org/80361 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689 (vdb-entry)