Cross-site request forgery in MediaWiki - CVE-2013-4302
Published: October 27, 2013 / Updated: December 22, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42418
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4302
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 wiki/api.
Affected software
MediaWiki
Fedora
mediawiki119
Fedora
mediawiki119
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4302
Install update from vendor's website.
mediawiki119 - update to 1.19.8-1.el6
External References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html
- http://osvdb.org/96912
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54715
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2753
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49090
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86896
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21