High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 21, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-35625
CVE-2020-35625
Description
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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Affected products
4- MediaWiki/Widgets extensiondescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ic899a8b15bc510e61cdacb5c024af2d226a2dbebnvdThird Party Advisory
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269718nvdThird Party Advisory
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