CVE-2020-25814Cross-site Scripting in Mediawiki

Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.53%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedSep 27
Latest updateMay 24

Description

In MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4, XSS related to jQuery can occur. The attacker creates a message with [javascript:payload xss] and turns it into a jQuery object with mw.message().parse(). The expected result is that the jQuery object does not contain an tag (or it does not have a href attribute, or it's empty, etc.). The actual result is that the object contains an <a href ="javascript... that executes when clicked.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages4 packages

Packagistmediawiki/core1.31.01.31.9+2
debiandebian/mediawiki< mediawiki 1:1.35.0-1 (bookworm)
NVDmediawiki/mediawiki1.32.01.34.4+1
Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.35.0-1+3

Also affects: Fedora 33

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
MediaWiki Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability2022-05-24
OSV
MediaWiki Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2020-25814: In MediaWiki before 12020-09-27

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
mediawiki: XSS via javascript:payload2020-09-27
Debian
CVE-2020-25814: mediawiki - In MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4, XSS related...2020
CVE-2020-25814 — Cross-site Scripting in Mediawiki | cvebase