CVE-2020-35474

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In MediaWiki before 1.35.1, the combination of Html::rawElement and Message::text leads to XSS because the definition of MediaWiki:recentchanges-legend-watchlistexpiry can be changed onwiki so that the output is raw HTML.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.htmlMailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268894Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.htmlMailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268894Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 18, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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