CSRF in MediaWiki
CVE-2014-9276
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Special:ExpandedTemplates page in MediaWiki before 1.19.22, 1.20.x through 1.22.x before 1.22.14, and 1.23.x before 1.23.7, when $wgRawHTML is set to true, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with edit permissions for requests that cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the wpInput parameter, which is not properly handled in the preview.
Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (50.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 50th percentile — 50.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- MediaWiki — versions 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/03/9 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/04/16 (mailing-list)
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73111
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-November/000170.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Patch)