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CVE-2020-25815 json

MediaWiki Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also BIT-mediawiki-2020-25815 , EUVD-2022-1972 , GHSA-2f58-vf6g-6p8x

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. LogEventList::getFiltersDesc is insecurely using message text to build options names for an HTML multi-select field. The relevant code should use escaped() instead of text().

Patch / fix

  • packagist mediawiki/core 1.34.3, 1.35.0
  • bitnami mediawiki 1.34.4
  • mediawiki mediawiki 1.34.4
  • mediawiki Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:1.35.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25815

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-25815 updated cvss 6.1

mediawiki: LogEventList:: getFiltersDesc is insecurely using message text to build options names for HTML multi-select field

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 mediawiki Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 mediawiki
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist mediawiki/core
>=1.32.0, <1.34.3
>=1.35.0-rc.0, <1.35.0
1.34.3
1.35.0
bitnami mediawiki
>=1.32.0, <1.34.4
1.34.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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