CVE-2011-1580

MediaWiki < 1.16.3 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Transwiki Import

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The transwiki import functionality in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly check privileges, which allows remote authenticated users to perform imports from any wgImportSources wiki via a crafted POST request.

References (16)

Core 16
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/44142
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66739
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28449
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html
Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15

Scores

EPSS 0.0060
EPSS Percentile 69.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (42)
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.1.0
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.0
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.1
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.2
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.3
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.4
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.5
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.2.6
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.3
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.3.0
... and 32 more
Published Apr 27, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026