VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-35625
An issue was discovered in the Widgets extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.1.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.03%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.03%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.03% probability · 62th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Affected
- mediawiki/mediawiki
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ic899a8b15bc510e61cdacb5c024af2d226a2dbebThird Party Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269718Third Party Advisory
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ic899a8b15bc510e61cdacb5c024af2d226a2dbebThird Party Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269718Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.