VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-15164

CVSS score10 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.17%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-08-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

in Scratch Login (MediaWiki extension) before version 1.1, any account can be logged into by using the same username with leading, trailing, or repeated underscore(s), since those are treated as whitespace and trimmed by MediaWiki. This affects all users on any wiki using this extension. Since version 1.1, comments by users whose usernames would be trimmed on MediaWiki are ignored when searching for the verification code.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-287
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-74

Primary references