VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3454

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Published 2014-05-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Special:CreateCategory in the SemanticForms extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that create categories via unspecified vectors.

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/2014-January/000138.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki1.22.0
mediawikimediawiki1.21
mediawikimediawiki1.21.1
mediawikimediawiki1.21.2
mediawikimediawiki1.21.3
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.19.9"}
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
mediawikimediawiki1.19.8

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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