Privilege Escalation via Crafted POST Request in MediaWiki Transwiki Import Functionality

CVE-2011-1580 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

The transwiki import functionality in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly check privileges, which allows remote authenticated users to perform imports from any wgImportSources wiki via a crafted POST request.

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