CVE-2015-2940

Published Apr 13, 2015

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.8
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-352

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "AF8654AE-7741-4CD6-A1C1-1C70CF29DEED"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References