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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2024-40601)

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MediaWiki: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2024-40601)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/07/2024
Created
07/12/2024
Added
07/11/2024
Modified
07/11/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in the MediaWikiChat extension for MediaWiki through 1.42.1. CSRF can occur in API modules.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

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