CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4306
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-10-11
- 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
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.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.19.0 < 1.19.8)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.20.0 < 1.20.7)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.21.0 < 1.21.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html Patch
- http://osvdb.org/96908 Broken Link
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893 VDB Entry
- https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e798427cba7f21526827f651 Patch
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html Patch
- http://osvdb.org/96908 Broken Link
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893 VDB Entry
- https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e798427cba7f21526827f651 Patch