Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in MediaWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
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TITLE:
MediaWiki "Clickjacking" Security Bypass Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42810
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-01-04
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in MediaWiki, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions
and 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. compromise a user's account
by tricking a user into clicking a specially crafted link via
clickjacking.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.16.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.16.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits PleaseStand.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-January/000093.html
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26561
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