Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.25.5-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.86% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-MEDIAWIKI-20414225
  • published3 Oct 2026
  • disclosed1 Sept 2015

Introduced: 1 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-6728  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest mediawiki to version 1:1.25.5-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

The ApiBase::getWatchlistUser function in MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2 does not perform token comparison in constant time, which allows remote attackers to guess the watchlist token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1