Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.35.0-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.1% (42nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-MEDIAWIKI-1012648
- published 25 Sep 2020
- disclosed 27 Sep 2020
Introduced: 25 Sep 2020
CVE-2020-25815 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
mediawiki
to version 1:1.35.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki
package and not the mediawiki
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
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().
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-25815
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/ec76e14be658187544f07c1a249a047e1a75eaf8/includes/logging/LogEventsList.php#214
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/