CVE-2012-5391

Session fixation vulnerability in Special:UserLogin in MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the session_id.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2014-06-02

Last modified

2024-08-06

Affected products

• Mediawiki (Mediawiki)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098975.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100843.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100845.html
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40995
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83008