CVE-2020-25812

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.34.x before 1.34.4. On Special:Contributions, the NS filter uses unescaped messages as keys in the option key for an HTMLForm specifier. This is vulnerable to a mild XSS if one of those messages is changed to include raw HTML.

References

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/ad4a3ba45fb955aa8c0eb3c83809b16b40a498b9/includes/specials/SpecialContributions.php#592

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-09-27

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium