Security advisory
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 tag (or it does not have a href attribute, or it's empty, etc.). The actual result is that the object contains an
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25814
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 tag (or it does not have a href attribute, or it's empty, etc.). The actual result is that the object contains an
osv:CVE-2020-25814
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:46.868751984Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RTTPZ7XMDS66I442OLLHXBDNP2LCBJU6/",
"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html",
"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html",
"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Core_modules#mediawiki.jqueryMsg"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 436427,
"published_at": "2020-09-27T21:15:12.687+00:00"
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