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CVE-2015-2940 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html CVEPatchVendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858 CVE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 CVE

see all 14 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mediawiki checkuser
All versions

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-2940
NVD Published Date:
Apr 13, 2015
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-2940 Details - Not Deferred