CVE-2015-2940

Impact

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05