VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5394

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Published 2013-12-13 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that login via vectors involving image loading.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki1.20
mediawikimediawiki1.20.1
mediawikimediawiki1.20.2
mediawikimediawiki1.20.3
mediawikimediawiki1.20.4
mediawikimediawiki1.20.5
mediawikimediawiki1.20.6
mediawikimediawiki1.20.7
mediawikimediawiki1.21
mediawikimediawiki1.21.1
mediawikimediawiki1.21.2
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.19.8"}
mediawikimediawiki1.19
mediawikimediawiki1.19.0
mediawikimediawiki1.19.1
mediawikimediawiki1.19.2
mediawikimediawiki1.19.3
mediawikimediawiki1.19.4
mediawikimediawiki1.19.5
mediawikimediawiki1.19.6
mediawikimediawiki1.19.7

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.