CVE-2014-3454

Summary

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Special:CreateCategory in the SemanticForms extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that create categories via unspecified vectors.

Impact & exploitability

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/2014-January/000138.html ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000138.htmlPatch
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57025