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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2020-35626)

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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2020-35626)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/21/2020
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
12/29/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in the PushToWatch extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.1. The primary form did not implement an anti-CSRF token and therefore was completely vulnerable to CSRF attacks against onSkinAddFooterLinks in PushToWatch.php.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

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