CVE-2012-1578: Mediawiki

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with the block permission for requests that (1) block a user via a request to the Block module or (2) unblock a user via a request to the Unblock module.

Affected products

• Mediawiki Mediawiki: version 1.17 only; version 1.17.0 only; version 1.17.1 only; version 1.17.2 only; version 1.18 only; version 1.18.0 only; …

Published 2012-09-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.