Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 13, 2015· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2015-2940
CVE-2015-2940
Description
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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
7- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1nvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477nvd
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05nvd
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