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CVE-2012-5395

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the centralauth_Session cookie.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: through 1.18.5; 1.20, 1.19, 1.19-beta_1, 1.19-beta_2, 1.19.1, 1.19.2 (+8)

References

• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40962
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40962

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