CVE-2012-1578

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
• http://osvdb.org/80361
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
• http://osvdb.org/80361
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911