{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25814","details":"In MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4, XSS related to jQuery can occur. The attacker creates a message with [javascript:payload xss] and turns it into a jQuery object with mw.message().parse(). The expected result is that the jQuery object does not contain an \u003ca\u003e tag (or it does not have a href attribute, or it's empty, etc.). The actual result is that the object contains an \u003ca href =\"javascript... that executes when clicked.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:48:45Z","published":"2020-09-27T21:15:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2020-25814"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25814"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-September/093888.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86738"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Core_modules#mediawiki.jqueryMsg"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25814"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mediawiki","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki@1:1.27.4-3?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1:1.27.3-1","1:1.27.4-1","1:1.27.4-2","1:1.27.4-3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"mediawiki","binary_version":"1:1.27.4-3"},{"binary_name":"mediawiki-classes","binary_version":"1:1.27.4-3"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25814.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mediawiki","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki@1:1.31.7-1?arch=source&distro=focal"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1:1.31.2-1ubuntu1","1:1.31.5-1","1:1.31.5-1ubuntu1","1:1.31.5-2","1:1.31.5-3","1:1.31.5-3ubuntu1","1:1.31.6-1","1:1.31.7-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"mediawiki","binary_version":"1:1.31.7-1"},{"binary_name":"mediawiki-classes","binary_version":"1:1.31.7-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25814.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}