CVE-2020-9382

Summary

CVECVE-2020-9382
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-24 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Widgets extension through 1.4.0 for MediaWiki. Improper title sanitization allowed for the execution of any wiki page as a widget (as defined by this extension) via MediaWiki's {{#widget:}} parser function.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Widgets Project Widgets All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
⚓ T245850 Invoking any namespaced page with {{#widget:}} will run the page's contents as a widget; even if the page is not in Widget namespace (CVE-2020-9382) MISC phabricator.wikimedia.org Exploit, Third Party Advisory
gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I953e060bc6994ffdba9f380c98173f53f8ca1ea8 MISC gerrit.wikimedia.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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