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ikiwiki Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory: SA29907  
Release Date: 2008-04-21

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:ikiwiki 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-0165 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ikiwiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the application allowing users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the request. This can be exploited to e.g. change a user's password and manipulate certain preferences or wiki pages.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.42.

Solution:
Update to version 2.42.
http://ikiwiki.info/download/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://ikiwiki.info/security/#index31h2



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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. ikiwiki Two Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
2. ikiwiki Repository Path Symlink Information Disclosure


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