CVE-2015-2940

MediaWiki CheckUser Extension - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858

Scores

EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 52.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (1)
mediawiki/checkuser
Published Apr 13, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026