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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-25812: mediawiki -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 28, 2020
Added
Sep 28, 2020
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-mediawiki
Title
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