CVE•Published 2017-03-23•Modified 2026-05-13•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2015-8624Mediawiki · Mediawiki
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2017-03-23
Modified 2026-05-13
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag39 hosts
vuln:CVE-2015-8624Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Mediawiki Mediawiki"All exposed Mediawiki Mediawiki instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Mediawiki"HTTP body or banner mentions "Mediawiki" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2015-8624Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2015-8624Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2015-8624Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2015-8624GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2015-8624" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.