CVE-2012-5394
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2012-5394 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2013-12-13 18:07:53 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC |
| Description | Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that login via vectors involving image loading. |
Risk And Classification
Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS: 0.001710000 probability, percentile 0.380240000 (date 2026-04-30)
Problem Types: CWE-352 | n/a
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
NetworkAccess Complexity
MediumAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
PartialIntegrity
PartialAvailability
PartialAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19 | beta_1 | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19 | beta_2 | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.19.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.20 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.20.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.20.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.20.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.20.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.20.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.20.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.20.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.21 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.21.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | 1.21.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mediawiki | Mediawiki | All | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: mediawiki-1.19.9-1.fc18 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.fedoraproject.org | |
| ⚓ T42747 CentralAuth CSRF | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugzilla.wikimedia.org | |
| [SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: mediawiki-1.21.3-1.fc19 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.fedoraproject.org | |
| [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki Security Release: 1.21.3, 1.20.8 and 1.19.9 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.wikimedia.org | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.