CVE-2020-5302 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in MH-WikiBot, an IRC bot for the Miraheze API. An unprivileged user could impersonate a privileged user's nickname on the IRC interface to access steward commands, as the bot lacked a login verification check. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and could lead to unauthorized information disclosure and modification. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2020-04-06CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mh-wikibot_project:mh-wikibot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
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