{"id":"CVE-2015-6728","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-6728","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:51:02.369Z","title":"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…","description":"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.","published":"2015-09-01T14:59:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:31:19.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-352"],"affected":["mediawiki/mediawiki"],"epss":{"score":0.00862,"percentile":0.58289,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.86%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76334","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76334","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6728","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}