Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-5302
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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",
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"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.",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:23.208886672Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/examknow/MH-WikiBot/compare/2eac90d...1a62da1",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 385257,
"published_at": "2020-04-07T16:15:18.557+00:00"
}