CVE-2008-5252

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Special:Import feature in MediaWiki 1.3.0 through 1.6.10, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3 allows remote attackers to perform unspecified actions as authenticated users via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5 (+48)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33133
http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33133
http://secunia.com/advisories/33349
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901

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