CVE-2020-5302 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2020-5302

unprivileged user can access priviledged action in MH-WikiBot

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

MH-WikiBot
Vulnerable Versions:
< commit 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1

Timeline

Official Publish: April 7th, 2020
Last Modified: August 4th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-284

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1078 Valid Accounts
Persistence
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1565.002 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact