CVE-2020-27957

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-27957
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-28 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-11-04 14:55:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mediawiki Mediawiki All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
⚓ T266400 RandomGameUnit: Stored XSS (CVE-2020-27957) MISC phabricator.wikimedia.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I497d2076038f75c9eb77e0e250f2af56f5bd2bfc MISC gerrit.wikimedia.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
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