Name: CVE-2015-8624: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-8624, CWE-352, CVSS 8.8, EPSS 0.00116

The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 does not perform token comparison in constant time before determining if a debugging message should be logged, which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8623.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 8.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade mediawiki	Jul 30, 2024	Mar 23, 2017
Freebsd	—	Upgrade mediawiki125Upgrade mediawiki124Upgrade mediawiki126Upgrade mediawiki123	Dec 10, 2025	Dec 24, 2015
Mediawiki	—	Upgrade MediaWiki to the latest version	Aug 24, 2017	Mar 23, 2017

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CVSS Details

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