CVE-2015-2940
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user
02 Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.09% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 65.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2015-04-13 14:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 05:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-04-07
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Compound
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6e91f6595c3c58b454ddb1b4df4b7679109b8816bdba083ea122fa5da3fef9f1
05 Affected products
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201510-05https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2015:200http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
- www.securityfocus.com73477http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150407 Re: CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150331 CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
- lists.wikimedia.org[MediaWiki-announce] 20150331 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.24, 1.23.9, and 1.24.2https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
- phabricator.wikimedia.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mediawiki Fixed in 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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