CVE-2015-2940 — Cross-Site Request Forgery in Mediawiki

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 47.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
MediawikiDebian Mediawiki
Timeline
PublishedApr 13
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/mediawiki< mediawiki 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 (bookworm)
▶Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3+3

Patches

Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-g77q-mpv6-8w22: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certa↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-2940: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certa↗2015-04-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2015-2940: mediawiki - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for M...↗2015
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