CVE-2013-4306
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.htmlPatch
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019Patch
- https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e798427cba7f21526827f651Patch
- http://osvdb.org/96908
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893