CVE-2012-1580
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 1.5%EU EUVD
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Special:Upload in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that upload files.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-352
- EPSS score
- 1.5% (75th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1597)
- Published
- September 9, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1597 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
- mediawiki / mediawiki
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/80364
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35317
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74286
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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