CVE-2020-25814
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.1 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
6.1CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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 <a> 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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.htmlAdvisory
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Core_modules#mediawiki.jqueryMsgAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/