Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CVE-2019-12468
Summary
An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability was found in Wikimedia MediaWiki prior to 1.32.2. Directly POSTing to Special:ChangeEmail would allow for bypassing re-authentication, allowing for potential account takeover.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published
