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CVE-2012-1580

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Special:Upload in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that upload files.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Mediawiki — Mediawiki

CWEs

References

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