Checkuser Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-2940

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.

CVE-2019-16529

An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension through 1.35.0 for MediaWiki. Oversighted edit summaries are still visible in CheckUser results in violation of MediaWiki's permissions model.

CVE-2019-18611

An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension through 1.34 for MediaWiki. Certain sensitive information within oversighted edit summaries made available via the MediaWiki API was potentially visible to users with various levels of access to this extension. Said users should not have been able ...