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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2013-4306)

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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2013-4306)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/11/2013
Created
10/26/2019
Added
10/23/2019
Modified
10/23/2019

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in api/ApiQueryCheckUser.php in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki, possibly Checkuser before 2.3, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that "perform sensitive write actions" via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_19_8
  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_20_7
  • mediawiki-upgrade-1_21_2

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