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MediaWiki Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability - CVE-2015-8623 - Vulnerability Database
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MediaWiki Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability - CVE-2015-8623

High
Reference: CVE-2015-8623
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8623
Title: MediaWiki Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability
Overview:

The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12 and 1.24.x before 1.24.5 does not perform token comparison in constant time before returning which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8624.