MH-WikiBot access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in MH-WikiBot. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2020-5302. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in MH-WikiBot (Content Management System) (affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

MH-WikiBot (an IRC Bot for interacting with the Miraheze API), had a bug that allowed any unprivileged user to access the steward commands on the IRC interface by impersonating the Nickname used by a privileged user as no check was made to see if they were logged in. The issue has been fixed in commit 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1.

The weakness was released 04/07/2020 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-5302 since 01/02/2020. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1 is able to eliminate this problem.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.7

VulDB Base Score: 7.1
VulDB Temp Score: 6.8
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NVD Base Score: 8.2
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CNA Base Score: 8.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1

Timelineinfo

01/02/2020 🔍
04/07/2020 +96 days 🔍
04/08/2020 +1 days 🔍
05/09/2025 +1857 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1
Status: Confirmed
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2020-5302 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-5302
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-152846

Entryinfo

Created: 04/08/2020 07:29
Updated: 05/09/2025 20:18
Changes: 04/08/2020 07:29 (36), 04/08/2020 07:34 (12), 10/07/2020 15:08 (1), 05/17/2024 12:31 (17), 05/17/2024 12:38 (21), 05/09/2025 20:18 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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