PT-2013-4949 · Mediawiki · Mediawiki Checkuser Extension

Krenair · Published 2013-10-11 · Updated 2019-07-18 · CVE-2013-4306

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki CheckUser extension versions prior to 2.3

Description A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that perform sensitive write actions via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.3, update to version 2.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4306

Affected Products

Mediawiki Checkuser Extension

References · 9

• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html · Patch
• https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e798427cba7f21526827f651 · Patch
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4306 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4306 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893 · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/62210 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/96908 · Note