# CVE-2020-35477: MediaWiki before 1.35.1 blocks legitimate attempts to hide log entries in some situations.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-12-18 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205908
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/

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