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Bug 23371 - Special:Userlogin form is not token protected
Special:Userlogin form is not token protected
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.16.x
All All
: Normal critical (vote)
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Assigned To: Platonides
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Reported: 2010-05-01 20:15 UTC by Platonides
Modified: 2010-05-01 20:18 UTC (History)
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Description Platonides 2010-05-01 20:15:10 UTC
The Special:Userlogin forms for login and account creating is not token 
protected with a session, which caused bug 23076. However, r64677 only 
fixed it for login (which is the most critical due to $wgAllowUserJs).

The hole remains for "E-mail me my password", "Create account" and 
"Create by e-mail", with the following abuse cases:

*For wikis allowing public account creation, an attacker could create 
many accounts via proxying users, avoiding ip blocks, the anon gets 
logged in (wikis using ConfirmEdit to request a captcha for createaccount 
are protected from this).

*If the victims were logged users, the attacker could create the 
accounts by email and flood innocent parties using the wiki as gateway.

*If the victim was a sysop, the attacker could not only bypass the 
captcha protection, but also the username blacklist.

*It also provides a way to bypass the blocks and ping limit for sending 
many password resets flooding its targets.

*On private wikis an account creation by targeting a sysop may expose 
confidential information.
Comment 1 Platonides 2010-05-01 20:18:56 UTC
Fixed on r65760

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