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TITLE:
MediaWiki Login Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39333

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39333/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in MediaWiki, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct cross-site request forgery
attacks.

The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP
requests without performing any validity checks to verify the
requests. This can be exploited to e.g. force a victim into executing
malicious javascript.

Successful exploitation requires "$wgAllowUserJs" to be set to "true"
in LocalSettings.php.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.15.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.15.3 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-April/000090.html

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