SB2013101203 - Cross-site request forgery in MediaWiki
Published: October 12, 2013 Updated: July 26, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013101203
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4306)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html
- http://osvdb.org/96908
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893
- https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e798427cba7f21526827f651