What is CVE-2020-35625?

CVE-2020-35625 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2020-12-21.

How severe is CVE-2020-35625?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Mediawiki

CVE-2020-35625

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.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.010 (60.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Mediawiki
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-35625?: CVE-2020-35625 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2020-12-21.
How severe is CVE-2020-35625?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.