CVE-2019-12468

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability was found in Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.27.0 through 1.32.1. Directly POSTing to Special:ChangeEmail would allow for bypassing re-authentication, allowing for potential account takeover.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-306

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/Third Party Advisory
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092152.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197279Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/12Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4460Third Party Advisory
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/Third Party Advisory
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092152.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197279Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/12Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4460Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 10, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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