MediaWiki Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2011-1580 - Vulnerability Database

MediaWiki Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2011-1580

Low

Reference: CVE-2011-1580

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1580

Title: MediaWiki Improper Input Validation Vulnerability

Overview:

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.