CVE-2015-2940

medium

Description

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-04-13

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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