🛡️ CVE-2020-27621
🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The FileImporter extension in MediaWiki through 1.35.0 was not properly attributing various user actions to a specific user's IP address. Instead, for various actions, it would report the IP address of an internal Wikimedia Foundation server by omitting X-Forwarded-For data. This resulted in an inability to properly audit and attribute various user actions performed via the FileImporter extension.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-04-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mediawiki

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