CVE-2012-1578: CSRF
First published: Sun Sep 09 2012(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17-beta_1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17.0 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17.0-rc1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17.1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.17.2 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18-beta_1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18.0 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18.0-rc1 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | =1.18.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
- http://osvdb.org/80361
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/event
- agent/description
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/tags
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- vendor/mediawiki
- canonical/mediawiki mediawiki
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17-beta_1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17.0
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17.0-rc1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17.1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.17.2
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18-beta_1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18.0
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18.0-rc1
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.18.1