CVE-2012-1578 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html http://osvdb.org/80361 http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911