CSRF in MediaWiki
CVE-2013-4306
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in api/ApiQueryCheckUser.php in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki, possibly Checkuser before 2.3, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that "perform sensitive write actions" via unspecified vectors.
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: 0.009 (58.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 58.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e79… (Patch)
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html (mailing-list, Patch)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/96908 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893 (VDB Entry, vdb-entry)