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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23291 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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:09:14.607Z

Reserved: 2020-12-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-35625

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-21T23:15:12.530

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:27:43.503

Link: CVE-2020-35625

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