CVE-2012-5391
Session fixation vulnerability in Special:UserLogin in MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the session_id.
- EPSS
- 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mediawiki:mediawiki
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098975.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100843.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100845.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40995