CVE-2012-1578

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with the block permission for requests that (1) block a user via a request to the Block module or (2) unblock a user via a request to the Unblock module.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.17, 1.17-beta_1, 1.17.0, 1.17.0-rc1, 1.17.1, 1.17.2 (+5)

References

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
http://osvdb.org/80361
http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
http://osvdb.org/80361

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