Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with the block permission for requests that (1) block a user via a request to the Block module or (2) unblock a user via a request to the Unblock module.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-1595 Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with the block permission for requests that (1) block a user via a request to the Block module or (2) unblock a user via a request to the Unblock module.
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Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:01:02.739Z

Reserved: 2012-03-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-1578

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-09-09T21:55:05.947

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-1578

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