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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2015-8624)

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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2015-8624)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/24/2017
Modified
05/13/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

References

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