CVE-2015-2940

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Publication date:

13/04/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors.

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:checkuser:-:::::mediawiki::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015%3A200
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015%3A200
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05