CVE-2013-4306 Cross-site request forgery in n/a
A CSRF vulnerability in the MediaWiki CheckUser extension allows attackers to hijack user sessions and perform sensitive write actions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2013-4306?
CVE-2013-4306 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki, published on 11 Oct 2013. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in api/ApiQueryCheckUser.php in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki, possibly Checkuser before 2.3, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that "perform sensitive write actions" via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4306?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mediawiki Mediawiki.
How do I fix CVE-2013-4306?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4306 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2013-4306 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4306 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mediawiki Mediawiki
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x626-vgcp-38c3.