Vulnerability CVE-2020-27620
Published: 2020-10-22

Description:
The Cosmos Skin for MediaWiki through 1.35.0 has stored XSS because MediaWiki messages were not being properly escaped. This is related to wfMessage and Html::rawElement, as demonstrated by CosmosSocialProfile::getUserGroups.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Mediawiki -> Skin\ 

 References:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/skins/Cosmos/+/634749
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/skins/Cosmos/+/634751
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/skins/Cosmos/+/634752
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265440
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