Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-352 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• GLSA-201510-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• MDVSA-2015:200 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 73477 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150407 Re: CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150331 CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [MediaWiki-announce] 20150331 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.24, 1.23.9, and 1.24.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 05:32 UTC.