CVE - CVE-2011-1580

CVE-ID
CVE-2011-1580	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings
Description
The transwiki import functionality in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly check privileges, which allows remote authenticated users to perform imports from any wgImportSources wiki via a crafted POST request.
References
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
MLIST:[mediawiki-announce] 20110412 MediaWiki security release 1.16.3 URL:http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html MLIST:[oss-security] 20110413 Re: CVE request: mediawiki 1.16.3 URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28449 DEBIAN:DSA-2366 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366 FEDORA:FEDORA-2011-5495 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2011-5807 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2011-5812 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2011-5848 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html BID:47354 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354 SECUNIA:44142 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/44142 VUPEN:ADV-2011-0978 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978 VUPEN:ADV-2011-1100 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100 VUPEN:ADV-2011-1151 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151 XF:mediawiki-transwiki-sec-bypass(66739) URL:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/66739
Date Entry Created
20110405	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE-ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20110405)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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CVE-2011-1580