CVE-2013-4572

CVE-2013-4572: vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki

Published · Updated

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 2.1%
exploitation probability
2.1%top 19% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The CentralNotice extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 sets the Cache-Control header to cache session cookies when a user is autocreated, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as the created user.
Affected products
Wikimedia Foundation · MediaWiki
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References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.htmlhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.htmlhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032