CVE-2020-27957
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-28 02:29
Modified
2024-08-04 16:25
Severity ?
Summary
The RandomGameUnit extension for MediaWiki through 1.35 was not properly escaping various title-related data. When certain varieties of games were created within MediaWiki, their names or titles could be manipulated to generate stored XSS within the RandomGameUnit extension.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I497d2076038f75c9eb77e0e250f2af56f5bd2bfcPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266400Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I497d2076038f75c9eb77e0e250f2af56f5bd2bfcPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266400Exploit, Vendor Advisory
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