CVE-2012-1578

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9

http://secunia.com/advisories/48504

http://osvdb.org/80361

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3