A vulnerability has been discovered in DokuWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. change the access control rules by tricking a logged in administrator into visiting a malicious web site.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2009-12-25b. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 2009-12-25c or later.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by an anonymous person.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
DokuWiki:
http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-01/17-dokuwiki-security
http://freshmeat.net/projects/dokuwiki/tags/security-fix

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