CVE-2012-1578

CVE-2012-1578 affects MediaWiki 1.17.x (before 1.17.3) and 1.18.x (before 1.18.2). The root cause is multiple CSRF vulnerabilities that allow remote attackers to hijack authentication of users with block permission for requests to Block (block a user) or Unblock (unblock a user). Impact is hijack...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201206-09 (MediaWiki)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201206-09. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...