Security advisory
MediaWiki before 1.35.1 blocks legitimate attempts to hide log entries in some situations. If one sets MediaWiki:Mainpage to Special:MyLanguage/Main Page, visits a log entry on Special:Log, and toggles the "Change visibility of selected log entries" checkbox (or a tags checkbox) next to it, there is a redirection to the main page's action=historysubmit (instead of the desired behavior in which a revision-deletion form appears).
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-35477
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
MediaWiki before 1.35.1 blocks legitimate attempts to hide log entries in some situations. If one sets MediaWiki:Mainpage to Special:MyLanguage/Main Page, visits a log entry on Special:Log, and toggles the "Change visibility of selected log entries" checkbox (or a tags checkbox) next to it, there is a redirection to the main page's action=historysubmit (instead of the desired behavior in which a revision-deletion form appears).
osv:CVE-2020-35477
Complete source record
{
"id": "1d28b45f381d7b9a4a529fa92e6b35dcad5edf753d386cb5df128c436034f33c",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-35477",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-35477",
"summary": "MediaWiki before 1.35.1 blocks legitimate attempts to hide log entries in some situations. If one sets MediaWiki:Mainpage to Special:MyLanguage/Main Page, visits a log entry on Special:Log, and toggles the \"Change visibility of selected log entries\" checkbox (or a tags checkbox) next to it, there is a redirection to the main page's action=historysubmit (instead of the desired behavior in which a revision-deletion form appears).",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-35477",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2020-35477",
"aliases": [
"BIT-mediawiki-2020-35477",
"CVE-2020-35477"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3e26b5ff1468f98cf306575d125b29a6645bf2ea"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.35.1"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"1.35.0",
"1.35.0-rc.3",
"1.35.0-rc.2",
"1.35.0-rc.1",
"1.35.0-rc.0",
"test-hashar-for-ci",
"1.6.0",
"1.5.0beta4",
"1.5.0beta3",
"1.5.0beta2",
"1.5.0beta1",
"1.5.0alpha2",
"1.5.0alpha1",
"1.3.0beta1",
"1.1.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-35477.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:37.349068449Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.html",
"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.html",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816",
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205908"
],
"provider_metadata": {
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{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "9.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "9.0"
},
{
"introduced": "10.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "10.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "33"
},
{
"last_affected": "33"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
]
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2020-35477",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 434203,
"published_at": "2020-12-18T08:15:15.23+00:00"
}