| Name | CVE-2020-25812 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.34.x before 1.34.4. On Special:Contributions, the NS filter uses unescaped messages as keys in the option key for an HTMLForm specifier. This is vulnerable to a mild XSS if one of those messages is changed to include raw HTML. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4767-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mediawiki (PTS) | bullseye | 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:1.39.12-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:1.39.13-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.43.3+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - mediawiki <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-September/093888.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255918