CVE-2014-5241

MediaWiki < 1.19.18, 1.20.x-1.22.x < 1.22.9, 1.23.x < 1.23.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via JSONP Callback

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The JSONP endpoint in includes/api/ApiFormatJson.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.18, 1.20.x through 1.22.x before 1.22.9, and 1.23.x before 1.23.2 accepts certain long callback values and does not restrict the initial bytes of a JSONP response, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks, and obtain sensitive information, via a crafted OBJECT element with SWF content consistent with a restricted character set.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3011
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:153
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/59738
Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68187
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/14/5
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0309.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 54.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (48)
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19 (3 CPE variants)
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.0
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.1
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.2
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.3
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.4
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.5
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.6
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.7
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.19.8
... and 38 more
Published Aug 22, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026