CVE-2011-1580

Description

The transwiki import functionality in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly check privileges, which allows remote authenticated users to perform imports from any wgImportSources wiki via a crafted POST request.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66739

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28449

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366

http://secunia.com/advisories/44142

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3