CVE-2020-5302 — MH-WikiBot (an IRC Bot for interacting with the Miraheze API), had a bug that al

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 ha

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
examknow	MH	WikiBot — < commit 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-04-07T15:40:14.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T08:22:09.088Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/security/advisories/GHSA-7hf3-wvp8-34r9
• github.com — https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/compare/2eac90d...1a62da1