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CVE-2013-4306

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in api/ApiQueryCheckUser.php in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki, p

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in api/ApiQueryCheckUser.php in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki, possibly Checkuser before 2.3, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that "perform sensitive write actions" via unspecified vectors.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 0.00228
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Weakness Classification

CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
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Affected Products & Versions

3
mediawiki>= 1.19.0 and < 1.19.8
mediawiki>= 1.20.0 and < 1.20.7
mediawiki>= 1.21.0 and < 1.21.2
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Scoring & Timeline

6.8
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD11 Oct 2013 · 09:55 PM
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References & Sources

7
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.htmlPatch
http://osvdb.org/96908Broken Link
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019Issue TrackingPatch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893VDB Entry
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