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Debian: CVE-2020-35479: mediawiki -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-35479: mediawiki -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/18/2020
Created
12/22/2020
Added
12/21/2020
Modified
12/21/2020

Description

MediaWiki before 1.35.1 allows XSS via BlockLogFormatter.php. Language::translateBlockExpiry itself does not escape in all code paths. For example, the return of Language::userTimeAndDate is is always unsafe for HTML in a month value. This affects MediaWiki 1.12.0 and later.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mediawiki

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