CVE-2008-5252

high

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Special:Import feature in MediaWiki 1.3.0 through 1.6.10, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3 allows remote attackers to perform unspecified actions as authenticated users via unknown vectors.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901

http://secunia.com/advisories/33349

http://secunia.com/advisories/33133

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-12-19

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00311