FKIE_CVE-2012-1578

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-09-09 21:55 - Updated: 2026-04-29 01:13
Severity
Summary
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with the block permission for requests that (1) block a user via a request to the Block module or (2) unblock a user via a request to the Unblock module.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://osvdb.org/80361
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48504Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/80361
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/48504Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.0
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.0
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.1
mediawiki mediawiki 1.17.2
mediawiki mediawiki 1.18
mediawiki mediawiki 1.18
mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.0
mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.0
mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.1
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