CVE-2011-1580 Information

Description

The transwiki import functionality in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly check privileges which allows remote authenticated users to perform imports from any wgImportSources wiki via a crafted POST request.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15 http://secunia.com/advisories/44142 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28449 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66739