MediaWiki 'Special:ChangePassword' CVE-2014-2665 Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

BID:66600

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MediaWiki 'Special:ChangePassword' CVE-2014-2665 Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 66600
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2014-2665
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 01 2014 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 13 2015 09:56PM
Credit: Gopinath
Vulnerable: MediaWiki Mediawiki 1.22.3
Mandriva Business Server 1 X86 64
Mandriva Business Server 1
Debian Linux 6.0 sparc
Debian Linux 6.0 s/390
Debian Linux 6.0 powerpc
Debian Linux 6.0 mips
Debian Linux 6.0 ia-64
Debian Linux 6.0 ia-32
Debian Linux 6.0 arm
Debian Linux 6.0 amd64
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

MediaWiki 'Special:ChangePassword' CVE-2014-2665 Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

MediaWiki is prone to a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit the cross-site request forgery issue to perform unauthorized actions in the context of a logged-in user of the affected application. This may aid in other attacks.

MediaWiki 1.22.3 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

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