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CVE-2013-4306

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in api/ApiQueryCheckUser.php in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki, possibly Checkuser before 2.3, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that "perform sensitive write actions" via unspecified vectors.

Published

2013-10-11T21:55:44.353

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.8 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-352

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	< 1.19.8	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	< 1.20.7	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	< 1.21.2	Yes

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html Patch ([email protected])
http://osvdb.org/96908 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019 Issue Tracking, Patch ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893 VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e798427cba7f21526827f651 Patch ([email protected])
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://osvdb.org/96908 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019 Issue Tracking, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893 VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e798427cba7f21526827f651 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)