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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2014-3454)

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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2014-3454)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/12/2014
Created
10/26/2019
Added
10/23/2019
Modified
05/11/2022

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Special:CreateCategory in the SemanticForms extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that create categories via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

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