CVE-2020-27957

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27957
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27957.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-27957
Aliases
Published
2020-10-28T03:15:12.647Z
Modified
2026-07-08T20:42:15.491511Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
2303b05125b2cc046a20d614786174ea803143eb
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.35"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.1.0
1.3.0beta1
1.35.0-rc.0
1.35.0-rc.1
1.5.0alpha1
1.5.0alpha2
1.5.0beta1
1.5.0beta2
1.5.0beta3
1.5.0beta4
1.6.0
Other
fundraising/REL1_35
test-hashar-for-ci

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27957.json"