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CVE-2020-25814: MediaWiki Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

May 24, 2022 (updated May 17, 2024)

In MediaWiki before 1.31.9 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.3, 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.

References

  • github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2020-25814.yaml
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vr7-m8p8-434h
  • github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6
  • lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
  • lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25814
  • phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86738
  • www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Core_modules

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.31.0 before 1.31.9, all versions starting from 1.32.0 before 1.34.3, all versions starting from 1.35.0-rc.0 before 1.35.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.31.9
  • 1.34.3
  • 1.35.0

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.31.9, 1.34.3, 1.35.0 or above.

Impact 6.1 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

packagist/mediawiki/core/CVE-2020-25814.yml

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