CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-35625

8.8 HIGH Published 2020-12-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

An issue was discovered in the Widgets extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.1. Any user with the ability to edit pages within the Widgets namespace could call any static function within any class (defined within PHP or MediaWiki) via a crafted HTML comment, related to a Smarty template. For example, a person in the Widget Editors group could use \MediaWiki\Shell\Shell::command within a comment.

Affected configurations

• mediawiki mediawiki (<= 1.35.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References