CVE-2012-5394

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: 2013-12-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that login via vectors involving image loading.

Affected products

Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.19.8; 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5 (+16)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40747
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40747

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