CVE-2020-5302 (GCVE-0-2020-5302)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-07 15:40 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:22
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Title
unprivileged user can access priviledged action in MH-WikiBot
Summary
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.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
examknow MH-WikiBot Affected: < commit 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1
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