CVE-2020-25815

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-09-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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().

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 33
Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: from 1.32.0 before 1.34.4 — fixed in 1.34.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.34.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/ec76e14be658187544f07c1a249a047e1a75eaf8/includes/logging/LogEventsList.php#214
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/ec76e14be658187544f07c1a249a047e1a75eaf8/includes/logging/LogEventsList.php#214
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html

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