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CVE-2012-1578
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…
Medium6.8EPSS 1.3%
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- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (9)
- mediawiki-multiple-csrf(78911) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120323 CVEs for MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.18.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20120322 MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.18.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 48504 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20120322 MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.17.3 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120322 MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.18.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 80361 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 52689 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .