CVE-2012-4379

MEDIUM

MediaWiki < 1.18.5 and 1.19.x < 1.19.2 - Clickjacking via Missing X-Frame-Options Header

Title source: llm

Description

MediaWiki before 1.18.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.2 does not send a restrictive X-Frame-Options HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks via an embedded API response in an IFRAME element.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41180

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6

Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.html

Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853426

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0043

EPSS Percentile 62.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-284

Status published

Products (3)

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.0

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.1

mediawiki/mediawiki < 1.18.4

Published Oct 19, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026