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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2015-8623)

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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2015-8623)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/24/2017
Modified
05/13/2022

Description

The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12 and 1.24.x before 1.24.5 does not perform token comparison in constant time before returning, which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8624.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

References

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