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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-5302

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:29 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-5302

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Apr 2020, 16:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2020-5302
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5302",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-5302",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-5302",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        "GHSA-7hf3-wvp8-34r9"
      ],
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
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                },
                {
                  "fixed": "23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1"
                },
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                  "last_affected": "23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1"
                }
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                  }
                ]
              }
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-5302.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:23.208886672Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/compare/2eac90d...1a62da1",
        "https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/security/advisories/GHSA-7hf3-wvp8-34r9"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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            ],
            "vendor_product": "mh-wikibot_project:mh-wikibot",
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                  }
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        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2020-5302",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385257,
  "published_at": "2020-04-07T16:15:18.557+00:00"
}