CVE-2020-35625

An issue was discovered in the Widgets extension for MediaWiki through 1.35.1. Any user with the ability to edit pages within the Widgets namespace could call any static function within any class (defined within PHP or MediaWiki) via a crafted HTML comment, related to a Smarty template. For example, a person in the Widget Editors group could use MediaWikiShellShell::command within a comment.

Date published : 2020-12-21

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ic899a8b15bc510e61cdacb5c024af2d226a2dbeb

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269718