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CVE-2011-1766

N/A

Description

includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.16.5, when wgBlockDisablesLogin is enabled, does not clear certain cached data after verification of an auth token fails, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by creating crafted wikiUserID and wikiUserName cookies, or by leveraging an unattended workstation.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published5/23/2011

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mediawiki:mediawiki

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-287

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060496.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060507.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-May/000098.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://secunia.com/advisories/44684(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47722(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702512(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28639(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060496.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060507.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-May/000098.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/44684(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47722(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702512(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28639(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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