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CVE-2020-25815An issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. LogEventList::getFiltersDesc is insecurely using message text to…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 34% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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().
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmediawiki/coreGHSA-2f58-vf6g-6p8x (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/ec76e14be658187544f07c1a249a047e1a75eaf8/includes/logging/LogEventsList.php#214 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-a4802c53d9 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-1972 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-2f58-vf6g-6p8x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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