CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1578
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-09-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.17
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html lists.wikimedia.org
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/80361 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212 bugzilla.wikimedia.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html lists.wikimedia.org
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/80361 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212 bugzilla.wikimedia.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com