Cross-site request forgery in MediaWiki - CVE-2013-4306
Published: October 12, 2013 / Updated: July 26, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31881
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4306
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: MediaWiki.org
Affected software:
MediaWiki
MediaWiki
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4306
Update to version 1.21.2.
Sources
- 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