CVE-2020-26120

mediawiki: XSS exists in the MobileFrontend extension

Published Sep 27, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 6.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
XSS exists in the MobileFrontend extension for MediaWiki before 1.34.4 because section.line is mishandled during regex section line replacement from PageGateway. Using crafted HTML, an attacker can elicit an XSS attack via jQuery's parseHTML method, which can cause image callbacks to fire even without the element being appended to the DOM.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-18750 XSS exists in the MobileFrontend extension for MediaWiki before 1.34.4 because section.line is mishandled during regex section line replacement from PageGateway. Using crafted HTML, an attacker can elicit an XSS attack via jQuery's parseHTML method, which can cause image callbacks to fire even without the element being appended to the DOM.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 3:49 PM
Reserved
Sep 27, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 27, 2020, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:07 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 27, 2020, 12:00 AM