Cross-site request forgery in MediaWiki - CVE-2012-5394
Published: December 13, 2013 / Updated: December 22, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42240
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-2012-5394
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-2012-5394
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40747