Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. LogEventList::getFiltersDesc is insecurely using message text to build options names for an HTML multi-select field. The relevant code should use escaped() instead of text().
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25815
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. LogEventList::getFiltersDesc is insecurely using message text to build options names for an HTML multi-select field. The relevant code should use escaped() instead of text().
osv:CVE-2020-25815
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-25815",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2020-25815",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. LogEventList::getFiltersDesc is insecurely using message text to build options names for an HTML multi-select field. The relevant code should use escaped() instead of text().",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-25815",
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"severity": "medium",
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"CVE-2020-25815",
"GHSA-2f58-vf6g-6p8x"
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"type": "GIT",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:29.495082903Z",
"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://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/ec76e14be658187544f07c1a249a047e1a75eaf8/includes/logging/LogEventsList.php#214"
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{
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{
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 432345,
"published_at": "2020-09-27T21:15:12.75+00:00"
}