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CVE-2012-1578

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Publication date:
09/09/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with the block permission for requests that (1) block a user via a request to the Block module or (2) unblock a user via a request to the Unblock module.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.17:beta_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.17.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.17.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.17.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18:beta_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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