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CVE-2019-12468 — HIGH severity vulnerability | Release Alert

CVE-2019-12468

7.5

HIGHCVSS v2

Published

July 10, 2019

Affected

4 projects

Assigned by

MITRE

Severity scale

010

Description

An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability was found in Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.27.0 through 1.32.1. Directly POSTing to Special:ChangeEmail would allow for bypassing re-authentication, allowing for potential account takeover.

wikimedia/mediawiki

GitHub🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.

>= 1.27.0, <= 1.32.1NVD

NPMA JavaScript framework for the MediaWiki API.

>= 1.27.0, <= 1.32.1NVD

More on this CVE

NVD↗GitHub Advisory↗

Python Package Index

MediaWiki Syntax to HTML

>= 1.27.0, <= 1.32.1NVD

Crates.ioA MediaWiki client library

>= 1.27.0, <= 1.32.1NVD