PT-2015-4233

CVE-2014-9476

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Published

2015-01-16

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Updated

2015-09-17

Description by

CVSS 2.0
5.0
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions 1.2x through 1.22.14 MediaWiki versions 1.23.x through 1.23.7 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x through 1.24.0
Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass CORS restrictions in $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains via a domain that has a partial match to an allowed origin. This can be demonstrated by using a domain such as "http://en.wikipedia.org.evilsite.example/."
Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.2x through 1.22.14, update to version 1.22.15 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.23.x through 1.23.7, update to version 1.23.8 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x through 1.24.0, update to version 1.24.1 or later.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-264
Related identifiers
CVE-2014-9476
ALT-PU-2015-1194
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