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Vulnerability details: VCID-pn1r-swzg-bbgy
Vulnerability ID VCID-pn1r-swzg-bbgy
Aliases CVE-2020-25828
GHSA-h8qx-mj6v-2934
Summary MediaWiki Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.9 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.3. The non-jqueryMsg version of mw.message().parse() doesn't escape HTML. This affects both message contents (which are generally safe) and the parameters (which can be based on user input). (When jqueryMsg is loaded, it correctly accepts only whitelisted tags in message contents, and escapes all parameters. Situations with an unloaded jqueryMsg are rare in practice, but can for example occur for Special:SpecialPages on a wiki with no extensions installed.)
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
System Score Found at
cvssv3 6.1 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-25828.json
epss 0.00358 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-25828
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h8qx-mj6v-2934
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2020-25828.yaml
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2020-25828.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25828
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25828
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115888
generic_textual MODERATE https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115888
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-25828.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-25828
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15005
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-17367
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-17368
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25812
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25813
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25814
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25827
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25828
https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2020-25828.yaml
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25828
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115888
1903776 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903776
GHSA-h8qx-mj6v-2934 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h8qx-mj6v-2934
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-25828.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/mediawiki/core/CVE-2020-25828.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25828
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115888
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.57257
EPSS Score 0.00358
Published At June 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-01T12:29:07.224884+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-h8qx-mj6v-2934/GHSA-h8qx-mj6v-2934.json 36.1.3