# CVE-2020-9382: An issue was discovered in the Widgets extension through 1.4.0 for MediaWiki.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-02-24 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Widgets extension through 1.4.0 for MediaWiki. Improper title sanitization allowed for the execution of any wiki page as a widget (as defined by this extension) via MediaWiki's {{#widget:}} parser function.

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## Related

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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245850
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I953e060bc6994ffdba9f380c98173f53f8ca1ea8

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