VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5395

medium
Published 2014-06-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the centralauth_Session cookie.

Predictions

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

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki1.20
mediawikimediawiki1.19
mediawikimediawiki1.19.1
mediawikimediawiki1.19.2
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.18.5"}
mediawikimediawiki1.18
mediawikimediawiki1.18.0
mediawikimediawiki1.18.1
mediawikimediawiki1.18.2
mediawikimediawiki1.18.3
mediawikimediawiki1.18.4

References

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