CSRF in Mediawiki Checkuser
CVE-2015-2940
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
EPSS: 0.003 (53.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mediawiki Checkuser
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- GLSA-201510-05 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- MDVSA-2015:200 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)
- 73477 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- [oss-security] 20150407 Re: CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24 (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- [oss-security] 20150331 CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24 (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20150331 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.24, 1.23.9, and 1.24.2 (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)