CVE-2012-5394

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that login via vectors involving image loading.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2013-12-13

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-352

Affected products

• Mediawiki (Mediawiki)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40747