Candidate: CVE-2012-1578 PublicDate: 2012-09-09 21:55:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1578 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23 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. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: micahg> Debian maintainer said 1.15 isn't affected, see 1:1.15.5-9 changelog Bugs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212 Priority: low Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_mediawiki: upstream_mediawiki: needs-triage hardy_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life) lucid_mediawiki: not-affected (1.15.x) maverick_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life) natty_mediawiki: not-affected (1.15.x) oneiric_mediawiki: not-affected (1.15.x) precise_mediawiki: not-affected (1.15.x) quantal_mediawiki: not-affected (1.15.x) raring_mediawiki: not-affected (1.15.x) devel_mediawiki: not-affected (1.15.x)