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CVE-2015-8624

The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 does not perform token comparison in constant time before determining if a debugging message should be logged, which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8623.

  • Published: Mar 23, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2015-8624
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.8
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.24.2 1.24.2.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.24.3 1.24.3.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.24.4 1.24.4.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.24.0 1.24.0.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.24.1 1.24.1.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.25.2 1.25.2.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.26.0 1.26.0.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.25.1 1.25.1.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.25.0 1.25.0.x
mediawiki / mediawiki 1.25.3 1.25.3.x
mediawiki / mediawiki - 1.23.11.x