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CVE-2015-8008
The OAuth extension for MediaWiki improperly negotiates a new client token only over Special:OAuth/initiate, which allows attackers to…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The OAuth extension for MediaWiki improperly negotiates a new client token only over Special:OAuth/initiate, which allows attackers to bypass intended IP address access restrictions by making an API request with an existing token.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 77379 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273353 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-ec6d598d3d (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-97fe05f788 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 1034028 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103022 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20151016 Extension Security Release: OAuth, Echo, PageTriage (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-24fe8b66c9 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20151029 Re: CVE Request: MediaWiki 1.25.3, 1.24.4 and 1.23.11 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-7904 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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