CVE-2015-2940 Information

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.

Reference

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05