CVE-2010-1190

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

thumb.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.2, when used with access-restriction mechanisms such as img_auth.php, does not check user permissions before providing scaled images, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read private images via unspecified manipulations.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.15.1; 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+85)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-March/000088.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39022
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_15_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2022
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0685
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1001
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-March/000088.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39022
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656

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