CVE-2012-1578 in MediaWiki

Summary

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.

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

• Reservation: 03/12/2012
• Disclosure: 09/09/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-4908 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-352 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.3
• EPSS: 0.00302
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1578
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1578
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-1578/