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Vulnerability details: VCID-utd6-z4vj-aaar
Vulnerability ID VCID-utd6-z4vj-aaar
Aliases CVE-2015-2940
Summary Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
System Score Found at
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generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2940
generic_textual Medium https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2940
generic_textual Medium http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-2940.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2940
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2940
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*
CVE-2015-2940 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2940
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2940
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.44947
EPSS Score 0.00245
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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