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CVE-2020-35625 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ic899a8b15bc510e61cdacb5c024af2d226a2dbeb	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269718	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ic899a8b15bc510e61cdacb5c024af2d226a2dbeb	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269718	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-862	Missing Authorization	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mediawiki mediawiki	<= 1.35.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 21, 2021	CWE Remap	[email protected]
Dec 23, 2020	Initial Analysis	[email protected]