CVE-2020-35479
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-18 07:42
Modified
2024-08-04 17:02
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.htmlMailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268938Exploit, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.htmlMailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268938Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816Third Party Advisory
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